LED Rave suit - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: Nickk2057
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 27, 2014, 05:06:56 pm
content: Ok. i may be new at this...... but i am wanting to make a LED Rave Suit to suit my own liking, but i want the LED's to do a chase and such, not just a flash or colors only. i seen some RGB serial type LED lights but are to expensive to my liking and is why i wanted to make my own. now i DO have an arduino with a ATMEGA328 on it, but want to program it so that way i can use my phone with bluetooth to control the colors and patterns. any ideas maybe? and is someone here good at programming an Arduino to do that? please let me know cause i am trying to get ready for a rave event soon and am a sponser for them. so i want to dress to impress.thanks.Nick

author: Nickk2057
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 27, 2014, 05:14:14 pm
content: and also. here is my first one i made.

author: katzohki
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 27, 2014, 07:24:54 pm
content: I was thinking about selling LED cyberlocks, but rave seems pretty much dead in this area. I like the idea and yeah a lot of people are pretty really programmers on here. Chase is definitely do-able, but it just depends on what you want. If you can define EXACTLY what you want, then the design will flow smoothly from that. How many LEDs? How many colors? How many per "channel" (on at a time)? If you plan a design properly, the design will be easy.

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 27, 2014, 07:43:44 pm
content: Take a look on this, might be what you want to do:http://rgbledcoat.blogspot.pt/2010/09/led-coat-project-update.html

author: Nickk2057
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2014, 08:26:04 am
content: a better example.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2014, 08:42:24 am
content: Yeah, it will definitely make your job much easier if you can use addressable RGB strip lighting instead of rolling your own.

author: Nickk2057
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2014, 04:50:07 pm
content: The Question is, Psi, is of how do i do it? am trying to find someone that can do programming on things like this and of how to make it work on a phone with bluetooth.

author: rob77
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2014, 05:22:02 pm
content: Quote from: Nickk2057 on July 01, 2014, 04:50:07 pmskip a few parties, spend the time rather on googling and reading and you'll figure it outarduino is the most digital thing ever - and as Bob Widlar said "every idiot can count to one"in other words... learning coding with arduino is extremely simple.

author: hlokk
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2014, 07:13:42 pm
content: Have a look into the adafruit neopixels. Will do pretty much exactly what you want. You can get them in strips and also in sewable sequins too. Individually addressable and easy to use/program so seems to do exactly what you want. Lots of tutorials on there on the net including some raver wigs on adafruitWhat katzohki said is a really good point. Once you get a good solid idea of what you want to do, it's a lot easier to then implement the design. On the plus side, some easy to use individually addressable RGB led's will lend themselves to reprogramming different modes easily (imagine shimmery effects or changing the pattern every few seconds, or even being sound controlled).Now for the bluetooth, certainly people run stuff off arduino via bluetooth so definitely possible. A quick glance found an app on the google store called "Bluetooth SPP". It seems you can program it and have say a 9 button keypad with custom controls to send to your arduino. So then you could just tell it to call various programs on your arduino that you have preprogrammed (chaser, flasher, pulser, etc). I did see one app on a Make video where you could touch the colour on a palette on your screen and it would get sent to your leds. If you have a non-android phone, you're probably SOL though

author: Nickk2057
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2014, 07:49:04 pm
content: pff... you are talking to an Android king here.. LOL! i will never go to use the idevices cause of the lack of features it has for open-source stuff. and i have heard of adafruit but all i have riht now is Arduino atm cause of the lack of funds right now.... :/

author: Nickk2057
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2014, 07:58:41 pm
content: and i think it be better to have pages for the Bluetooth SPP. reason is that it would be better for it to have a lot of variety of colors and patterns and flash modes too. be better to have that then to use the Chinese ones that uses an IR interface cause most people use that for their POI and hoops

author: hlokk
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2014, 07:53:49 am
content: Quote from: Nickk2057 on July 01, 2014, 07:49:04 pmYou'll only need the LED strips, as you already have an arduino to control the strips. If $16 for a meter of individually addressable RGB's LED's is too expensive then I dont think you're gonna get this project doneRe the phone, I have an iphone. It's a phone ffs, I choose to mess around with stuff I dont need as a device for ringing people and reading the internet. Does everything I want just fine :p Different strokes for diff folks.

author: Rasz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2014, 11:53:22 am
content: even better example

author: Nickk2057
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2014, 03:43:42 am
content: DEAR LORDY!!! XD ^^^^

author: Nickk2057
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2014, 03:44:49 am
content: Quote from: hlokk on July 02, 2014, 07:53:49 amnow as to the LED strip.... is there a name and model for them?