It usually can be costly to transform your favorite sneakers into flashy LED ones, but Blinky Shoes is offering a much more economic DIY version for upgrading your Converse or Nike sneakers into a brightly colored shoe.

A photo of Blinky Shoes lighting effects. (All photos courtesy of Blinky Shoes via Kickstarter)

The startup company’s solution is relatively simple. All that is needed is a rechargeable RGB LED strip lights, connectors, Velcro, clips, and scissors to make sure the tape fits the shoe. Each shoe also comes with an accelometer.
 

Blinky Shoes LED kit for upgrading the sneakers.

However, in the LED programing department Blinky Shoes LEDs is not as sophisticated as No New Folk’s Orphe, but it does come preprogrammed with six to eight lighting patterns. Consumers familiar with Adruiano board operations can also further program and customize LED lights lighting patterns.

While Blinky Shoes budging connector wires do not look as well designed as Orphe’s LED shoes, it offers a greater degree of customization, and more LED programming options than Evolved Footwear.

A man wearing Blinky Shoes siitting on a rock.

Blinky Shoes kits to upgrade any shoe to a LED version is priced at US $ 95 for early backers of its Kickstarter project. The U.S.-based startup company has raised $12,492 out of its pledged $5,000.