I’ve made a series of Arduino-based, wearable art pieces using laser cut acrylic and addressable LEDs. The shoulder pauldrons use old knee and elbow pads. The head pieces are built off construction helmets.
A collection of some of my wearable LED art pieces, starting with some of my earliest experimentation. All the pieces use the Arduino like Flora or Lilly Pad boards made by Adafruit and addressable LEDs. I used Adafruit's Neopixel library as the starting point for all the coding. The hats are all built on construction helmets, which fit well on the head but leave room for the electronics. The shoulder pieces (pauldrons) are actually recycled knee and elbow pads. All the acrylic pieces were laser cut.
