Creating an EFeel outfit

Having bought tickets to a Halloween music festival I decided this would be a great time to test out our EFeel Pro model. So my friends Don Heer and Brandi Coker help me make some costumes out of EL wires that would be controled with our EFeel Pro. So here we go:

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Costume 1:

This one is the first one that was made. The idea of was very simple and came from the logo I made. For our first prototype we had sewed all the EL wires on and that took a very long time so this time I tired hot gluing the EL wires to a shirt to see if it would work. Hot gluing turned out to be much faster and didn’t damage the EL wires, but it was a lot messier. The hot glue held pretty well and nothing came apart. Another issue was making sharp corners with EL wires for the circuit board trace design. So in-order to make the sharp corners I made a loop with the EL wires and covered the loop up with black electrical tape. The looping ended up not looking that great so next time I will probably loop the EL wires through the shirt or just bend the wires as tight as I can and use a lot of hot glue to keep there.

Costume 2:

This one was made by Don Heer and will be for Oregon State University. The costume is a white lab coat with about 50 feet of orange EL wires. The OSU part is done by hot gluing orange EL wires to a piece of cardboard and attaching the cardboard on the inside of the lab coat. the orange heart and glasses are done the same way, organe EL wire is glued on.

Costume 3:

This is Brandi Coker’s costume. It is also a lab coat and uses the same ideas as the orange lab coat design. EL wire is glued and ran through the lab coat to make the aperture logo on the back along with the heart, glasses, and turret figure in the front. There was a total of 30 feet of EL wires.