How to build a LIGHT-UP DRESS in one day with programmable LEDs
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- čas přidán 11. 12. 2019
- Going somewhere tomorrow but you've got nothing to wear? Follow along as I create this twinkling wearable LED dress in just one evening. It's not the neatest piece of work, but for an easy overnight electronics project, it's got the wow factor.
I started with a bunch of addressable RGB LEDs. I wanted to get neopixels, but they're expensive and take longer to ship where I live, so I opted for 100 cheap knock-off neopixels instead. I soldered 12 of them into a long chain, then decided where on my dress they were going to go. I cut some little holes, popped my addressable LEDs behind them and then sewed around the disk of the little board the LEDs are mounted on to secure them. The sewing was kinda messy, but it didn't matter because the abstract black and white pattern on the fabric hid the worst of it!
The next step is to hook your LED strip up to a micro controller. I used an Arduino Uno. The code was mainly an example sketch from the Adafruit website, but I added my own custom animation to make the lights act like an hourglass.
You can find the Adafruit code here: learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-n...
(I'll be posting something about the part of the code I wrote on my website, hannahmakes.com, so keep checking back for that.)
The only thing you'll need to change in the example code is one number: the number of LEDs in the strip. Eventually there will be wiring diagrams etc. on my website too, but basically, respect the arrows. Each LED has an in and out for +ve, -ve and data, just make a big long chain of them connecting the three "out"s of the previous LED to the three "in"s of the next. Then, if you've not got many LEDs, you can connect it all directly to your Arduino - the 5v in can connect to the Arduino 5v supply, -ve goes to Arduino's ground and the data wire goes to 6 (this is the default in the code but you can change it if you like).
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Procrastination can be a powerful driving force. The final result is quite good!
This is great! Good work!
Hannah MAKES her head hurt when she waits til the list minute.
Saw this from a tweet by Matt Gray, glad I followed the link. Cool build!
Have personal projects at the moment but this look adaptable and adorable. “I’ll be back!” (You know the voice 😀).
Just discovered you today and I’m binge watching all your vids! You’re freaking awesome!
Well thank you very much indeed 😎
This is great, I'm going to try and make something like this for all the post covid parties
Awesome! Hope you have a great time making it 😁
@@HannahMakeshannnnaaaa are you on Instagram?? I need your helllpppp
Yessss success
Good evening my name is paul from Columbus ga I love this video and wanting go make a light up out fit for a drag number im wanting to do do u happen to have a video that shows what electronics and battery and battery pack u used and what software do you use to program the lights
Luv it❤ i'm curious how you hide the controller on your back 😂
If you are using 1 pin to control the strip, use a smaller microcontroller like Arduino Micro, mini or nano. They are so small that you can sew them into the fabric and dont have to worry about them. They all run on two AA or AAA batteries.
Where did you get the lights
you is little crazy, It's so very coolllll 😎
Thank you 😎
Hah the soldering iron made me laugh for mine is shit as well..I like the build and video tho..question, what is the website that had the LED nipple pasties? That’s a project I’m working on right now
I think I first saw them on this is why I'm broke dot com, but I noticed Etsy have also got quite a selection! I bet it would be a fun project to work on. Just make sure they don't overheat!
I was gonna do this because I just made a Cinderella dress and wanted it to glow, butttt I don’t know shit about this so I’ll just watch!!!
A glowing Cinderella dress would be rad! One quick way to add lights to a dress or costume is just to sew on some EL wire - you can find it easily if you just Google EL wire, it looks kinda like fake neon 👍
You're actually quite adorable.
I wrote you on your e-mail! Look it up :D
daim u have beautiful eyes
Do you have a Twitter? Wanna give you a signal boost
Oh cheers! That'd be great :) I'm @hannahmakes
I was reading an Reddit post about a 7 year old girl who had just started to get into arduino, she just did the blink sketch, i really wanted to show her your vids, but you swear too much!!!! :(
Yeah, I've had similar feedback on other videos and it's absolutely fair - I've managed to keep my language a bit cleaner lately, although a couple of swears crept into my latest video. Is bleeping the bad words enough or is that still too much for younger viewers?