I wanted to show beauty in a simple way by taking inspiration from nature and using completely unnatural materials.
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I wanted to show beauty in a simple way by taking inspiration from nature and using completely unnatural materials.
a collection of images from my LED Angler suit, most of them documentation of my goggles, which I designed blue and red for 2 reasons; 1. The ability to turn one off at a time creates an entirely different mood for photographing depending on which color I choose and 2. when both are on the goggles present a 3D style. Click the images for more description
Overview of the Process
The original design was just to include leggings and the neck, not the full body.
The first challenge to make sure the idea would work was making a type of head piece. I needed to be sure I could connect all the LEDs to the same power source and have the lights stay up on their own.
After the test headpiece, I began on the neck lights. The process was very slow, soldering each light to a resistor to wire while adding hard metal wire to keep them up. Covering all the wire with black heat tubing and then connecting all the wires together took the most time. (this was also about the time that I made a new layout sketch, see 3rd and 2nd to last images)
I found cheap shoes at Savers, added the mirror shards, and worked on wiring the battery to one shoe.
The shoes worked, and I even added a large transistor
to make the lights fade out. I also added one to the neckpiece.
They ended up saving a lot of power, keeping the batteries from
burning out.
The goggles complete with switches on the back
of the head band and the neckpiece steadied using cardboard then
covered with spray painted stuffing, the only thing left was the body.
The body suit, a cheap unitard, was covered in the mirror
shard and the LEDs and wires were added last.
The simple diagram for how all the LEDs are connected.
The other sketches for the outfit. The very first design didn’t involve the full body, and as that changed so did a few smaller things, such as adding mirror shards.
everything ready to go on the work station. All lights connected and working, batteries powered, switches soldered, etc.
LED Angler Suit by Madison (Maddy) Riorda
Inspired by deep sea life, specifically the angler fish, my goal was to create a wearable piece completely controlled by the wearer. I wanted light to be used not for a functional purpose, but for subtle beauty and even mystery. I didn’t want to use a circuit board, rather a combination of different manual switches. The key aspect to the piece are the conductive shoes, the power supply in one shoe and the connecting wires in the other. In this way, the shoes work as one large switch, turning the small LED lights places on the body on when the heels of the shoes touch. The entire outfit consists of a body suit with mirror shards and small white lights, a neck piece to copy the Angler Fish style with long floating big LEDs, and goggles with blue and red lights circling the eyes. The shoes also had mirror shards attached to them, the mirrors used to create fragmented light.
small video or the "Angler" LED suit
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more Angler Suit pictures
LED "Angler" suit ready for action
yeaaahhhhhhh conductive shows and 3D glasses
some very serious work going on at 5am
conductive shoes are a go! adding screws to the heels where the two shoes will meet work great, the only problem is having to change the length of them so that they can all touch each other at the same time. there are three screws for power and two for ground on each shoe, the ground ones being lower on the heel and much easier to make contact with, there only need to be two. Having more screws for power make the chances that both ground and power will connect at once much higher. the left shoe holds the battery while the right shoe will connect to the LEDs. the design of adding mirror shards to the shoes makes for a great effect of fragmented light.
Shoes down, 5000 more things to go.
Adafruit sells Flora RGB Smart NeoPixel that are great for working with fabric. Thanks yewonyoo for the awesome link!
working with transistors and LEDs 1.30.14
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electric pickle
Nick Yulman makes me want to curl up into a ball and die of shame from his pure badass awesomeness jfc
jeff lieberman mad this sick levitating light bulb that we got to talk about in class
The Queen Machine by Linus and I (in which I get to scared to use my computer and beg Linus to work with me). It shakes boxes of little sodder balls I made using the code Linus compiled (seriously he did all the work) to play the beat of "We will rock you"
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top 2: computer panic as the ardumino killed our macs (thankfully not permanently)
2nd and 3rd row: working on final project, making long LEDs and a small test (works well as a head piece)