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Halloween 2011 – Glowing LED Oni Costume

So its Halloween…. Better plan all week, better plan all month, better plan all year……

Soft circuits LED oni costume in action. Sewn with conductive thread, LEDs slowly fade in and out and are controlled by an Lilypad Arduino and powered by a Lilypad LiPower supply. The dress will run for at least 11 hours continuously. It may run much longer than that, but I haven’t tested it for longer than 11 hours.

The earrings are basically throwies (LEDs taped to a coin cell battery) with earring hooks attached with coat-weight thread.  The necklace is four Lillypad LEDs wired with conductive thread in parallel to a coin cell battery.

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Arduino / Processing Flexible Circuits Sewing / Fashion / Costume

Soft Circuit Experiment – LED Matrix Capelet: Part I

LED Capelet Sketch

I recently began a soft circuit experiment in the form of a capelet that is adorned with an LED matrix using Lilypad LEDs.  The process documented here shows the process of cutting of the material and lining, pressing out the seams, and marking the LED positions, and beginning to sew on the first matrix (of 4 – 3 x 7 matrices) to test it.  I will post more as I continue to prototype and test the project.

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