This hoodie has 18 addressable LEDs controlled by an Adafruit Gemma board. They were connected using stainless steel conductive thread. This hoodie is made to be worn over something and never in the rain as the traces are not insulated. The stars themselves are laser cut polyester with a small amount of polyfill used to diffuse …
I used about 440 WS2812b LEDs + one 100foot string of fairy lights to create this dress. I used a Flora Board to control it and 4 large batteries to power it. Not lite by any means but bright and pretty for a good long time. These are some quick pics from New Years Eve.
This project was of course for burning man. I was handed a chef’s coat and a handful of random fairy lights and EL Wire from Cool Neon and asked to “do something cool”. Because this was for burning man I wanted to be sure the design could be seen from all sides. and stand up …
I thought this vest have a pretty good over view of this method of lighting things up. A spendy project with high impact… of that there is not doubt. [via hackaday]
