Neopatch
Arduino code for a cyberpunk-styled jacket with programmable embroidered snap-on RFID patches that control LED lighting effects & animations.
jacket_showcase.mp4
See the full project documentation here! https://karinachowtime.vercel.app/portfolio/neopatch
In short, we have a jacket file that instantiates all variables to be used in the rest of the project. Pin numbers, num of lights, NeoPixel instantiations…the works.
animation_x files include the animations for each light strand and matrix per type.
helpers_light includes light helpers that are not specific to any animation; such as setting up lights as the NeoPixel library requires via setup(), casing on what is read through the NTAGs and playing the appropriate animation, clearing all lights, etc.
helpers_nfc is where all the reading of the NFC magic is stored. It reads page by page and constructs a message, then looks for a delimiter (, in our case) and strips that message of extraneous characters.
main is where we have our setup() and loop() functions and call methods within helpers_x to read NTAGs and update lights.