Sleeping Beauty Princess Aurora Light UP dress

[TeresaMRoberts]

A little closer every day!


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[faille]

You always have the most interesting projects! Can't wait to see this one complete

 

[nomuse]

Alrighty... Update! I used Blackout white fabric (typically used for curtains to block light) as a layer under the sheer Fabric. Where the fiber optic bundles connect to the LED is very distracting. You can see a lot of light from the bundles and at the connection point. So adding this blackout fabric now solves that problem. I also got my High Power LEDs in. I've attached heat sink to them and although they get hot. They are never too hot for me to touch so I think they will be fine for my costume. I checked the combustible temperature for the fabrics I'm using and the lights would have to get 400 degrees and they would stop working far before they would get that hot. So I'm comfortable using them for this project. I've hooked up two of them to half the skirt and I'm super happy!


I'm working on hooking up the two other lights to the skirt. I've decided to use the super bright bulbs (not the high power) on the bodice. Only the center of the bodice and the piping will be lighting up on the top part of the dress.


FYI if you plan on using High power with Arduino I have to use two separate battery packs. I'm using really large lipo batteries I ordered from China. They are single cell 11000mAh batteries and because they were manufactured to my order all at the same time (they are LG brand and have date stickers to ensure this) I'm confortable connecting them to create a 2cell 22000mAh battery back. I used JST connector. The batteries each have protection boards on them and I'm using the adafruit Lipo usb charger with these (it too has protection board) I've not had any issues charging or using them. So I have two 22000mAh battery packs. One is connected to a adafruit powerboster1000 to power the 2560 aurdino, speakers, and the adafruit FX soundboard. Using the second battery back (with no Voltage Powerbooster) to power the actual LEDs. The LEDS draw too much current for the arduino so I'm using N-channel power MOSFET - 30V / 60A batterys hook strait to LEDS through the mosfets and the ardrino connects to the mosfets as well. With low positive power hits the mosfit it tells it to connect the circuit the other batteries turn on the LED light. Since I'm using the PWM pins I can even change color ect. Remember Electronics is new to me is you may or may not understand this but I'm all 100% self taught with the help of youtube, adafruit live wearable electronics show where you can ask questions and the arduino forum. This all so fascinating to me. It takes planning an research but anyone can do this!


****I used aliexpress for the Lipo Batteries. It was was less than $13 Per battery and free shipping. Took about 2 months to get maybe alittle longer but it was also during Chinese new year where everything shuts down for a week. This made sense for me cause I also got 2 for the Belle dress. I wanted to make sure if we wanted the dresses on ALL night that the battery could handle this with out needing to be recharged. It also made more sense to me to do it this way because they arent that heavy VS the metal lithium ion 18650 batteries. Which are TONs of fakes and so many aren't really protected and if they exploid medal shards can fly... Lipo batteries expand and can eventually catch fire but they don't explode the same way and its a lot easier to tell when something wrong cause the expand like a balloon first. Lastly the cost of regular batteries they don't hold as much capacity and a lot heavier. I can also reuse these for future costumes as log as i'm careful and take care of them. I did LOTS of research before deciding on a power source!

Been watching this with much interest. I'll have to check out the Lipo's on Alibaba. Are they internally protected, including the over-discharge switch? You might want to add a software monitor function to make sure you don't run the batteries too far down.

 

[TeresaMRoberts]

Been watching this with much interest. I'll have to check out the Lipo's on Alibaba. Are they internally protected, including the over-discharge switch? You might want to add a software monitor function to make sure you don't run the batteries too far down.

They are suppose to be protected for over charge and discharge. One is hooked up to Adafruit power booster that has a light that turns red when voltage is dropping to low to convert and batteries need to be re charged.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Size...603.html?tracelog=ae-app-ios-sharefor-shkmail

That's think to the batteries I purchased and I contacted them directly asking what the protection board covers

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[Twananas]

Starting to look so amazing! Can't wait to see it all finished.

 

[TeresaMRoberts]

Alright so I know it's been a while. The high power LEDs do get hot but I don't think it's too hot for this project. Originally I tried to attach them with hot glue. The lights do get hot enough to make the hot glue gummy and unstable. I tried just heat shrink and it still slides right off. So that didn't work... So I needed a glue that is heat resistant... Good old Gorilla Glue. So I gorilla glued heat shrink to the LEDs.


Then I took heat gun with the bundled fiber optic fibers and shrunk the heat shrink around them. I took electrical tape to secure the bundles to the heat shrink. And I think this is going to work!!







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[TeresaMRoberts]

Alright I finished getting the whole skirt hooked up Hope to get the top all light up tonight maybe early morning as well!!

 

[TeresaMRoberts]

Still have a few cosmetic things to do. I have several Hooks that I need to sew, I also want to put some kind a sheer binding on the bottom of the skirt edge but other than that It'd done
Here is video link
[video]https://youtu.be/oralGnVHOGE[/video]



I also sent the picture to the company I purchased the fabric from : LumiGram
and the want to put my dress on their site! I'm super excited!

 

[TeresaMRoberts]

So my Facebook got some feed back and lots of people where confused about the split colors on the dress. So I changed the sound effect for that part.
http://youtu.be/f-pw3HFYvfc


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