Hands Free Switch

Coming up with an idea for this was slightly challenging. I was inspired by ankle exercises I’ve been doing recently in which I would move my ankle around in different directions which gave me a few possible ideas.

Initially, I wanted to do a heel click with aluminum foil on my shoes with foil on the side of my shoes but when I connected the foil on each shoe to the wires, the LED would light up and produce a very faint light without the shoes touching each other. I then decided to wrap the foil around my shoe and step on the wire with it to make the switch.

I had one cable going into the foil inside my shoe and one cable under the shoe where I would step on it with the foil part of the shoe which would close the circuit.

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