alt Hacker NewsShow HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments
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4d4m • yesterday at 5:02 PM
The pwm animation/flicker/ramp up was a REALLY nice touch
IshKebab • yesterday at 10:07 PM
Ooo this is cool, I didn't know these exist. I once half made something like this with EL wire but I stopped after getting an electric shock from some EL tape. Turns out the edges are not at all insulated and you need high voltages to drive them. I'm not wearing that. 24V sounds much nicer.
danilafe • yesterday at 8:29 PM
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
buredoranna • yesterday at 9:46 PM
This is great, because the one problem I have with the cyberpunk dystopian future we live in, is the disappointing lack of neon.
Razengan • yesterday at 8:27 PM
Reminds me of a Japanese tech demo on YouTube I can't find right now, of projecting a flexible hologram on to a t-shirt with invisible markers.
One of my kids had something like this built into a Halloween costume that their mom procured from Amazon. One of the filaments was blinking out within a day so I started running the length of the filament to figure out where the bad connection was. Unexpectedly it shocked the hell out of me. I put a meter on it and it was 240V. I couldn't believe I got such a nasty poke from 2 AA batteries.