I decided to make this piece after finding a sweatshirt with skeleton hands on the front of it. I thought it would be neat if the fingers lit up like ET's. I messed around with songs and buzzers as well and it all just came together with for my halloween costume. It works with a Lilypad Protosnap Plus Board embedded into a sweatshirt and connected with conductive thread.
The first step was writing the code, which involved loop for the music (Harry Potter Theme Song) as well as a loop for the LEDs, both of which needed to have the switch as the input. I am very new to coding, so this took some time to figure out!
After working through the code, I broke apart my board and tested the different pieces with alligator clips.
Finally, I was ready to begin the final construction. I sewed the board to the shoulder and connected it to the switch and buzzer first. The switch is on the sleeve so it can be easily accessed.
Additionally, I sewed a small pocked so the board's battery could remain in place while unplugged. After these elements were situated, I sewed the LEDs in place at the tips of the skeleton fingers, noting the lights could shine brightly through the fabric.
There were a few places where I sewed additional fabric over the conductive thread so their paths did not disrupt the others. I made sure to sketch lines before beginning to find the easiest path for each. The final product ended up looking like this!
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