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<h1>Bliplace</h1>

Bliplace is a wearable, hackable, sound-activated blinky light toy. It uses a small microcontroller and a mix of hardware and software feedback to automatically synchronize with and adapt to the sounds around it - it should pulse along with the ambient noises around you no matter if you're in a quiet park or a thunderously loud concert.
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Bliplace uses ubiquitous CR2032 coin-cell batteries, which should be available virtually anywhere. The average power draw of Bliplace is well under 2 milliamps - a single battery should power it for around 150 hours, or a week of continuous use.
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The Bliplace design is open-source, and all code and design documents are freely available via this web page. :)
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That's Bliplace 1.0 on the left, and the new improved Bliplace 1.1 on the right.
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<h2>Source Code</h2>

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Copyright 2015 Austin Appleby

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
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<a href="bliplace.c">bliplace.c</a>

<h2>Schematics</h2>

<a href="bliplace.brd">bliplace.brd</a>
<a href="bliplace.sch">bliplace.sch</a>
<a href="bliplace.1.1.gerbers.zip">bliplace.1.1.gerbers.zip</a>

<h2>Documentation & Assembly Instructions</h2>

<a href="bliplace_1.1_instructions.pdf">blipace_1.1_instructions.pdf</a>

<h2>Where can I buy a Bliplace?</h2>

<strike>To be honest, I've been so busy with other projects that I haven't tackled trying to sell them en masse via the Internet, so there are just a few ways to get one -
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1. They're usually available in the vending machine at Metrix CreateSpace in Seattle.
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2. You can email me at tanjent (att) gmail (dott) com, and I'll let you know if I have any available.
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Kits are $10 a piece either way.
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Kits are sold out. I had 1000 boards made, gave away ~450 of them at various events, kept a few for myself, and sold the rest.
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My friend Mark has cloned my design and has kits for sale on Etsy - <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Fallenpegasus">Go buy 'em. :)</a>
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