Chayla asked me to help her make a Golden Metal Feather Bodice for an upcoming art photoshoot she was doing.
cut out the feathers, three different sizes.
2. Next was to add the jewels by hot gluing them.
3. Placing the feathers on the bodice.
4. Once everything was where it needed to be, we used metallic gold spray paint and painted it.
LED Bracer Workshop
taught by Amped Atelier
What we used:
Eva foam
Parallel Circuits
Duracell battery
Led
Copper Tape
Contact Cement ( super gel glue)
Led- The long side is the plus side.
Copper Tape- Very conductive . Ridged ,
For Actual fabric - conductive fabric tape. Amazon
Led, Battery source, something conductive- simple circuit
Sharing the power, which is what we did, is the parallel circuit
Blue Led's take less energy
Red- won't show great
White - is all colors. it sucks all the energy out from the others.
Places to purchase:
Lily pad & Spark fun ( The lilly pad is best for sewing, it has switches)
Chibitronis- paper circuit speciality
* If you are going to cosplay, if your lighting will be over a joint- use strain relief circuits.
Voltage Calculator - it will spit out a circuit diagram
FV- Forward Voltage
Amps- how much juice it takes
Contact Cement is used for real foam armor
Steps for building your LED Bracer
1. Match the sticky with the no sticky foam, making sure the holes match up.
2. Lilly Pad Battery Holder- on circuit, you need 1 positive & 1 negative
3. Draw/trace where the layout will be along with the + and - signs.
4. Lay the conductive fabric thread on the two lines.
5. Take the led's & split them ( gently) face down through the holes in the foam
6. glue the lilly pad battery holder at the top where we traced.
7. Use more conductive tape to sandwich the led wires. don't let the led touch the top of your battery. it can short circuit .
8. Can put a strip off foam to make it not touch your skin.
Guests: Jeff Leingier, Stormy Mystique, Ronah Harris, Sahrye Coleman, Hail Rodigorize
Servo allows for rotation and they are programable
Stepper motors, which allow you to put it at certain degrees
Motors are powered, they allow off and on switches
Starting out you need to think about 1. budget 2. how you want it to function 3. research
* There is a book called Making Things Move
You can purchase lego kits that have pulleys and motors. You can use toys - if they do exactly what you want them to do.
Also, you can go to Linked In and ask mathematicians questions about your programming, etc. and they are happy to help.
Wings- you need a firm harness so that they will balance
You can build things purchased from amazon, which is simple than deconstruction.
Also for wings, you can use scrapbooking brads, that can help with cardboard wings, etc.
Rooker switch, powerful controller
People have even used a garage door opener
Layer things so that hides things you may not want people to see.
Servo rotator - helps like a spring
12 volt Dewalt battery, is programmable
actuators - it helps move wings
firgelliauto.com sells actuators to $50.00-$200.00 always buy two.
Fiberglass or fiber carbon- fiber rod instead of pc pipe.
linear actuators move out and then in.
You can go to digikdy.com for electronics.
Draw what your motor is to work. need 12 volts.
Lithium & water or sweat is not good for your costume and it's toxic
If you are a beginner use 3 volts ( 2 batteries) which would be 6 volts all together & a simple motor.
If you want the costume to smoke, don't do e-cigs. Magician supplies sell smoke things.
Model train software, they sell things for lighting
Frightprops.com has voice activation devices.
Adafruit also has electronics.
