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So it would appear we have to buy our equipment for this project, fine. In that case I'm going to make something I want to keep.

Initially my idea for this brief was the typical 'give a remote control car a brain and eyes' but that is beyond over-done. Then I saw a video on youtube and I had a better idea.

For a little while now I have been interested in glowsticking, fire poi, orbiters and the like. However these are not exactly usable when you are not neck deep in ravers dancing your arse off to music you feel more than hear. Then I saw this and from that moment forth... I knew I should watch less monty python. NO. I knew I wanted to create something wrist mounted and awesome.

The idea is to have an SMD LED matrix, a tiny arduino board, an accelerometer, a battery and maybe another sensor or two mounted on a wrist band. From there I can use the inputs to dynamically light up the matrix in new and interesting ways. I see this being very fun and thanks to being easily amused, very distracting if (god forbid) I ever catch a bus again. Of course the matrix could be used to tell the time, and (if I can find a way to include bluetooth) alert of incoming txts et cetera.

Right now the build looks possible but relatively expensive, but depending on what people think of the result there might be a way to make more for less.