ROBOCORDONESSSS!!!!!XD
Kickass Kicks of the Day: Following artist Nils Guadagnin’s unveiling of the world’s first semi-functional hoverboard prototype, Blake Bevin ups the ante with a working model of the legendary powerlacing Nike high-tops featured in Back To The Future 2.
Why wait until 2015? Inspired by ‘Back to The Future II’, this project is less ‘Practical’ than ‘Proof of Concept’, but hopefully it’ll tide you over until Nike comes out with something more polished. This was also the first time I worked with an Arduino microcontroller, and I wanted to get some experience with the little guy. Operation is quite simple- step into the shoe and a force sensor reads the pressure of your foot and activates two servo motors, which apply tension to the laces, tightening the shoe. A touch switch reverses the servos. Due to budget constraints, I only modified one shoe. Where did I put that darn sports almanac?!
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