Projects / personal
This project has been a favourite of mine, it began in high school for the school ball with the theme golden hour. I decided to embed LED stripes within my waist coat and then use MOSFETs and a Arduino NANO to give myself a gold glow. It worked perfectly, except the ball was canceled due to covid. I have since used the waist coat for many events such as parties and high school graduation. Over the years it has gotten several upgrades and reprograms including a potentiometer to control brightness or pulse duration. However, the best modification I made was just a few weeks ago for my flatmates IEEE ball when he borrowed my controller and made his own coat glow. For this modification I added a microphone and peek detection software to somewhat sync the LEDs colour to the beat of the music. It was only partially successful but I learned a lot and made a pretty cool piece of clothing. For the same IEEE ball I also made light up earrings and a flashing bow tie using some LEDs and coin cells. Further planned upgrades include a fully custom PCB with a dedicated spectrum equaliser IC, instead of the Fourier Transform done in software as the current design is. Additionally I plan on making it compatible with addressable LEDs.