2 August 2015
I made Adam a LED dance top for his up-coming school dance.
I got of my ideas for this from http://www.instructables.com/id/Glow-like-the-sun-with-this-sound-reactive-LED-cyb/
Attach:P1070398-Small.jpg Δ I cut some strips of paper that were the same size as the LED strip segments so Adam could create a pattern.
Attach:P1070400-Small.jpg Δ Then I cut the LED strips to length and laid it out.
Attach:P1070401-Small.jpg Δ After hot gluing the segments in place I started soldering wires to link up the segments.
Attach:P1070402-Small.jpg Δ Tested the first part.
I added a cheap RF LED controller to adjust brightness and flashing/pulsing rate. It's powered from three 18650 battery cells I pulled out of a long dead laptop - which should last a couple of hours.
Then...
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He plans to wear this under his ninja costume - double awesome.