LED skirt

Project LED-skirt
Status	In progress
Contact	Noor
Last Update	2019-12-14

To do

• Cut up rest of LED strip into sections of 23 LEDs.
• Fix rest of LED strips onto crinoline.
• Microcontrollers and wiring.
• Figure out how much power is needed and battery holders.

• Want side-emitting LEDs along the bottom, but can't find side-emitting LEDs that are also waterproof, and can't put more than 1m of non-waterproof ones in a silicon tube.
• Diameter of crinoline bottom hoop is 80 cm. Need to add an extra 100+cm of arc length of black paneling and tulle paneling to inner layers.

Timeline

2019-11-06 - 2019-11-11

Bought:

• 8x8 cm WS2812 LED panel
• 5m, 30 LEDs/m, IP67, black LED pixel strip
• 241 LEDs, rings of varying sizes from 3 to 17 cm
• [x2] 2-hoop crinolines to attach LEDs to
• 88 cm black skirt

Old sketches:

2019-11-12 - 2019-11-24

• Layout of LEDs, waiting for items to arrive.
• Tested out LEDs under layers and on crinoline.

2019-11-25

• Took apart seams of inner layers of black skirt to add extra panels to fit over crinoline.

2019-11-26

• Measured skirt on top of crinoline. Extra panel with bottom arc length of 100+cm.
• Decided to go with 6 strips of 23 LEDs each. Cut one strip.

2019-12-03 - 2019-12-05

• Tested out LED rings. One wire was detached so had to be soldered on.

File:MAH06614.mp4 File:MAH06620.mp4

2019-12-06

• Punched holes in crinoline, used zip ties to attach first LED strip.
• Took apart LED circles and tested FastLED programs.
• Set up LED circles, one strip, and panel together on crinoline and used zip ties to place everything but the panel on crinoline.
• Ran FastLED programs on everything together.
• Pictures posted by others to Facebook, RevSpace kiekjes, Twitter.