Thanks so much to Aron for sending in the great costumes he made for his kids! Read more about the costumes here.
For the Gandalf staff I cut a branch along a crack using a band saw and put in el wire. I also installed small blocks to ensure the el wire would not get pinched. While I still had everything open I installed wires running the length of the staff. Then I moved on to lighting effects using a Trinket with neopixels at the top and led sequins at the bottom. The rest of the costume is gray cotton fabric sewn with large arms and batting in the hat.
This costume is of Ham, a chimpanzee space test pilot. It is a spacesuit altered with a silicon jacketed neopixel strip around the neck line. Extra large articulated ears are made with a thick floral wire armature wrapped on the horn of sub-micro servos. A mint tin in the back conceals a Teensy 3.1 and batteries.
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Adafruit Trinket – Mini Microcontroller – 5V Logic: Trinket may be small, but do not be fooled by its size! It’s a tiny microcontroller board, built around the Atmel ATtiny85, a little chip with a lot of power. We wanted to design a microcontroller board that was small enough to fit into any project, and low cost enough to use without hesitation. Perfect for when you don’t want to give up your expensive dev-board and you aren’t willing to take apart the project you worked so hard to design. It’s our lowest-cost arduino-IDE programmable board! Read more.
NeoPixel Mini PCB – Pack of 5: These are the smallest NeoPixel breakouts around! Tiny, bright RGB pixels to your project. These little PCBs are only 8mm x 10mm and have two sets of three pads on the back for soldering wires. These ultra-bright LEDs have a constant-current driver cooked right into the LED package! The pixels are chainable – so you only need 1 pin/wire to control as many LEDs as you like. Read more.
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