?? Cut six lengths of cord, each about 18" long. Remove the inner core and save for future projects. 2 The ankle strap is mounted pretty much the same way as the lower laces. Make sure you have download the motor shield lib.
Is your soldering iron still warm? Time to add some of the bells and whistles.
As you can see in the pics, I tested the components and programing with a breadboard attached. Since I’ve done the heavy lifting you can skip this part, but it doesn’t hurt to double check before everything is set in place.
After the program is uploaded (posted at the end of the instrutable) we can permanently mount the parts. First, we solder a resistor and to one pin of the LED and a length of wire to both pins.
That assembly is then pushed through an unused shoelace socket, and the wires are ran to the Arduino, using hot glue to keep everything in place and out of the way. Make sure you know which of the wires goes to the positive pin of the LED!
The Force sensor is mounted next. Soldering is not advised as the plastic may melt, so I wrapped some wire around the leads and hot glued them into place. The sensor was then glued and duct taped into the bottom of the shoe, right where my heel would rest.
The wires, also glued and taped into place, go up the back of the shoe and to the Arduino.
Finally, after we grab another resistor and a bit of medium gauge wire, we can begin soldering everything into place:
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