Homemade LD Goggles!

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I got this idea reading Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. IIRC LaBerge called light the #1 most effective way to externally induce an LD. Inside are two blue LEDs (Red is supposed to be best but RadioShack was sold out :3). Once you turn it on it waits an hour and then every ten minutes it turns on the LEDs for 7 seconds. The code runs on an Arduino. It got me lucid last night on the first try. I was in a tree with a friend and the ground suddenly turned into a big blue ocean, and I knew what had caused it. I just ordered some RGB LEDs (each one can be made to shine any color) and I want to make hypnagogic shape simulating goggles. They will have 4 LEDs, two per eye, and each one will, at random times, gradually brighten to a random color and then gradually fade away. The time it takes to fade in and out will shorten the longer you wear them. After they do that for 40 minutes they will switch into LD mode which is what I described above, they turn red for 7 seconds every 10 minutes. That's the design I have planned now anyway. Wanna make one? Stuff you need Arduino Mega 2560 (any Arduino board will work fine but for other boards you may have to change the code depending on what pins you use) Three jumper wires 12 feet of 22 AWG stranded wire Two 300 ohm resistors Two 5V LEDs of your choice of color A breadboard Sunglasses or safety glasses with plastic lenses A drill Some electrical tape (or a soldering iron if you're legit like that) What you do Setup the Arduino with your PC (instructions @ arduino.cc) Use the breadboard to set up two circuits like this: Where R1 is one of the resistors, D1 is one of your LEDs, the positive side of the battery on the left is a digital pin on the Arduino (I used 22 for one LED and 44 for the other), and the negative side is a GND pin on the Arduino. Use the stranded wiring to hook up your LEDs to the breadboard, 3 feet for each lead. Drill a hole in each lens in your glasses (usually the packages the LEDs come in tell you the LED's diameter, so use a drill bit that's just barely bigger than the LED diameter). Poke the LEDs though, tape them in there, and voila! Now deploy this code to the Arduino: http://pastebin.com/cLdMZ57F