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DIY Light-up LED Dress With Color Changing (RGB) LEDs

September 25, 2017 by Luke Skaff 6 Comments

My niece wanted to be a princess for Halloween in 2016 so I decided to make her something unique, a color changing light-up LED dress.  I over-complicated the build as what normally happens normally the first time you make something.  I learned a lot from the process and many ways to improve upon the design, hopefully I can help someone else looking to make an LED dress.  All in I spent about $120, $45 of which were the dress and petticoat.

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Table of Contents

  • 1. Selecting a dress to attach LEDs
  • 2. Assembly
    • 2.1 LEDs
      • 2.1.1 Attach the LED strips to the dress petticoat
      • 2.1.2 Wiring up the LEDs with soldered connections option
      • 2.1.3 Wiring up the LEDs with solderless connections option
    • 2.2 Power supply
      • 2.2.1 Ryobi Battery Connection
      • 2.2.2 Voltage Step Down Converter
      • 2.2.3 Power Connections
  • 3. Finished LED Dress
  • 4. Lessons Learned

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