Oh yeah they turned out great 
Yeah they did! You can take your own personal disco fun with you everywhere now.
Oh yeah. With matching LED hat and tie lol
Oh yes, the disco fish tie would go great with the shoes! 
@marmil ​ lol. Im actually gonna wear a tie with the circuit playground running the demo reel. Idk what i did to it but i have a hard time uploading to it and not all of my programs will work on it 
Hard work paid off, looking good!
They just broke lol
Data line ripped out on the last segment
That’s awesome. Good job!!
Can I ask a quick question, how do you power it? And where does the power supply/battery go?
500mA Lithium polymer battery. I hide it inside the shoe on the side lol
Heh, same thing happened to me Cristian 
I spent a week working on the same fix for last Halloween only to have the strips break apart after a few steps. I honestly don’t know how the hell Becky Stren manages to skateboard with those.
@Cristian_Martinez have you tried using silicone / hot glue gun for holding down the wires connected to the strip? Although I have never used it for the shoes, I found it makes the connection more durable / stronger
What I ended up doing for my shoes was to mount them using some Velcro spaced along the edges of the shoe. That gave the LED strip a lot of movement freedom as it was “floating” around the shoe, and did not bend with my movements. Con was that it was easy to trip on the strip, but pro was that it did not break after a week of everyday use during burning man. Also was dark, so the setup did not look bad with the darkness. They looked a bit weird during the day.
Well on the plus side the part that broke isnt too hard to repair. Its the last segment of the strip so i just need to trim off the broken LED. Or optionally i could just solder to the data line connection on the bottom of the strip lol
The most common feedback ive received on these goes along the lines of “you know they already make those right” to which i reply “not like these they dont!”
Same here! I use an accelerometer instead of a vibration sensor and with some extra code I put the shoes to a less bright mode when I am not walking.
I was actually thinking about using a standby mode so when not active for 10 seconds it automatically goes into standby until a step is registered. But being rather new to coding and adafruit’s gemma firewalker code looking like gibberish to me i havent the slightest idea where to start lol
Since having the lights on the outside didnt turn out to be the brightest idea i had the idea of purchasing a pair of LED shoes then gutting them and upgrading them to be “cool” with patterns cheap chinese shoes cant do. Only bad thing is that its so hard to find cheap chinese LED shoes for my little brother’s freakishly large feet. Size 13!
I have not read the code for some time, but if my memory serves, I believe the code from Adafruit that applies to the Gemma is using avr/sleep.h and puts the chip in sleep mode in wait for a trigger by the sensor. My code does not make use of any of those mechanisms, but simply changes the display mode when low activity is registered by the accelerometer.