LED Festival Coat with Mapping and WLED #LED Pixels #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit

Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: add lights to your festival coat and control the lights with your phone. This guide will show two different ways to add animated NeoPixel lights to your favorite furry festie warmie. From the guide:

Hold onto your hat, ’cause your threads are about to get a serious upgrade, man. We’re talkin’ LED lights for your furry coat, but not just any lights, my friends. We’re talkin’ lights that’ll have you struttin’ like a disco diva under the neon glow.

This guide will demonstrate two different methods of lighting up a coat:

1. Fur Trim Lights: String LED lights inside the ubiquitous furry trim that’s found on so many Festival jackets. This is a fairly easy build that doesn’t require a lot of sewing or coding skills.
2. Light Matrix Panels: Create a 3-panel LED matrix between the coat fabric and lining that runs 2d animations on the body of the coat. This is a more complicated build that requires some coat deconstruction and sewing, and requires some detail-oriented number work to get the LED map created.

Watch a video of the coat in action on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_wrw9c-9wPg?feature=shared

Content Summary:
– The guide provides instructions for creating a festival coat with LED lights, offering two methods: simple fur trim border lights and more complex light matrix panels with LED mapping.
– It details the process of installing WLED on a microcontroller, setting up WiFi and LED preferences, and testing the setup through a web-enabled device.
– The guide also covers considerations for coat selection, LED layout and density, power limitations, and assembly steps for both the Feather microcontroller and LED strips.

Adafruit Products Summary:
– The NeoPixel strand is connected to pin 13 on the Adafruit Feather microcontroller, which is the brain of the LED festival coat project. [Feather](https://www.adafruit.com/product/3403)
– A USB power switch tail is used to connect the Feather’s USB port to the battery, providing power to the LED lights. [USB power switch tail](https://www.adafruit.com/product/1620)

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