but [George’s] project is a homemade LED helmet that takes no shortcuts and packs the visor full of hundreds of individual lights. He started with a prototype that uses a PIC 18F4580 ...

The project relies on cheap, commonly available LED strip lights ... thus it made sense to fit helmet lights rather then more typical bike lights to make them more visible to surrounding traffic.

Jeff Chen Hao-ren, 23, came up with the smart bicycle helmet, called Lumos, which is designed to improve the safety and visibility of cyclists riding after dark. Using integrated LED lights on the ...