Tron do-it-yourself suit

DIY enthusiast Jen “FoxBot” on SparkFun (an electronics store for hobbies and self-made projects) presented a project of a glowing suit that reacts to sound. A sound sensor, a board controlling the electroluminescent wires, the luminous wires themselves, and auxiliary components were used for the costume.


Video with a description of the project

Components:

• glowing wires
• control board (up to 8 wires)
• battery
• adapter
• inverter
• sound sensor
• pin array
• connecting wires

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Powered by design from LiIon-battery. Jen placed the electronic boards in a pocket, sewn to his belt. The remaining details of the costume can be chosen arbitrarily.


The costume itself

1. Check control board with battery, inverter and wires



2. Soldering connecting pins to the controller



3. Soldering the connecting pins into the sensor



4. Connection of the sensor with the controller and production of a protective casing for it



5. Making a pocket that will house the electronics.



6. After these simple preparations, you can put the belt on, hide the electronics in your pocket and connect the glowing wires to it, which are then distributed to the extent of the author’s aesthetics and richness of imagination.







With a creative and assiduous approach, it will be possible to create something like costumes from the feature film “Tron”.



The controller is programmed using the Arduino framework, and is connected to the computer via a special adapter. On the project page, the author presented one of the many possible options for implementing the program that controls the glow of the wires depending on the signals from the sound sensor.

The sound sensor used in the project has three outputs - audio output, binary output (there is sound / no sound) and output with data on the amplitude of sound.


Demonstration of work