s2010 t-shirt LED assemblage

Preview of the LED layout used for 'digital' t-shirts to be showcased by Fab Lab San Diego and SIGGRAPH in LA; July 2010.

For this project, the lights were programmed in Arduino to follow a slow, subtle pattern (with slight random variations). The lights at bottom of video are in one group of 5, and then there is a light further up which stays on a bit longer (on the shirt, that light will be separate from the rest). Then, after some time, all the lights come alive as the rhythm speeds up. Then, back to a subtle pattern for a few minutes.

Arduino is a programming language with an interface that is available free (open source), here:
http://www.arduino.cc

The code is free for you to paste it into your very own Arduino 'sketch' ('program') as a head-start for some cool programming. Available at Fab Lab San Diego:
http://www.fablabsd.org/?p=667&preview=true

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• fab lab
• sandro alberti
• fen-om
• led
• electronic
• digital
• t-shirt
• arduino
• lilypad
• programming