Brake Light

Replacement brake light for motorcycle with blinky and secret powers

Prototype with test button

Inspiration

Amazon version for $29.95 : No secret powers

Hardware

• Original Brakelight : In case this goes horribly wrong
• Raspberry PI Pivo W : Probably doesn't need to be a W, but WHY not
• NeoPixels
• L7805CV Power stepdown components

Features

• Functions as normal brakelight until configured otherwise
• Ambulance Mode: Blink the braking mode
• Night Ride Mode: Night rider animation during normal mode + ambulance blink
• Tap Response Modes: Respond to sequences of taps
  • Enabling tap sequence can't interefer with normal operation
  • Turn Mode
    • 3 taps: Left turn for 30s
    • 4 taps: Right turn for 30s
  • Demo Mode
    • 2 taps: Party mode for 1s
    • 3 taps: Party Mode for 1m
    • 4 taps: Explosion
    • 5 taps: Police/Ambulance flashing for 1m
  • Media Control Mode
    • 2 taps + length of next tap: Volume
  • Evil Mode
    • Use wifi to rickroll everyone in range
    • Enabled with morse code for EVIL . ...- .. .-..

Wiring

Kickstarter

Started work on this

• Founders award = Send us your brake light, we'll sned it back rewired
• Supporter 1 = Complete kit: Standard light socket plugs + a strip of neopixels you can just jam into whatever you currently have
• Supporter level 2 = Parts kit: hardware not connected
• Supporter level 3 = I just wanna see it happen

Brakelights song

C (A bouncey C)   G (maybe F?)
Your brakelights  aren't that Bright
C                 G
Espiecially       at night
C                 C
Make'm Blink      Make'm flah
G                 G
Like that car     From Night Rider

License

I dunno... I figure if you use the code and stuff to make money you should gimme a cut. Let's go with MIT for now

MIT License, see LICENSE.