DIY Tron Style Costume

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


Project Description Video

Components:

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

The design is powered by a LiIon-rechargeable battery. Jen placed the electronic boards in a pocket sewn to his belt. The remaining details of the costume can be selected arbitrarily.


The suit itself

1. Checking the control board with the battery, inverter and wires



2. Soldering the connecting pins into the controller



3. Soldering the connecting pins into the sensor



4. Connecting the sensor to the controller and making a protective cover for it



5. Making a pocket for electronics



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







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



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

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


Work demonstration