Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: add lights to your festival coat and control the lights with your phone. This guide will show two different ways to add animated NeoPixel lights to your favorite furry festie warmie. From the guide: Hold onto your hat, ’cause your threads are about to get a serious upgrade, man. We’re talkin’ LED lights for your furry coat, but not just any lights, my friends. We’re talkin’ lights that’ll have you struttin’ like a disco diva under the neon glow. This guide will demonstrate two different methods of lighting up a coat: Fur Trim Lights: String LE ..read more

Katherine Becvar, the creative mind behind Blue Moon Designs, is bringing light up jewelry and fashion to the cosplay world using Adafruit technology. Her work is a gorgeous blend of historic designs and modern tech, as she infuses her costume pieces and accessories with lovely and tasteful animated lights. See an interview of Katherine on YouTube and get a glimpse of her work in action. Katherine’s passion for creating captivating costumes led her to pursue a degree in Costume and Textile Design from the University of California, Davis. However, it was Adafruit’s tutorials that sparked a new ..read more

Adafruit Forums user IanLukeFinley creates a light up Zagreus from Hades cosplay. There are actually four different animations: the fire on the crown and feet, the pulse in the skulls’ eyes, and then a chase and a pulse in the sword. Which also has a steady red/green option via a switch. I hooked up a set of three AA batteries in series to power the (NeoPixel) lights and the Adafruit Metro board. Check out the build in the Adafruit forums here ..read more

小芊枫 XiaoQianFeng shared this project on Youtube. The attention to detail and incredible! In this video I have Made a Valkyrie Mech Suit for myself. The whole set is 2m high with Motor-driven movable shoulders. The material is EVO. This work has already been finished by the end of February, due to some unexpected issues, it can be published now. Hope you enjoy my video, have a great day! See more! Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects fe ..read more

By way of Make: comes word of this cool project to create lighted, motorized Mantis Blades, the viscous weapon found in Cyberpunk 2077. This project showcases not only the technical prowess involved in building the Blades, but also the creative process Zibartas went through in adapting a fantastical piece of in-game technology into a real-world, functional cosplay accessory ..read more

Check out the latest guide from Erin St Blaine: make a light-up Rapunzel wig that reacts to sounds and lights up when the wearer makes a noise. This is based on Rapunzel’s glowing hair from the Disney Tangled movie, where the main character’s hair glows when she sings a special song, giving her magic healing powers. Making kids feel like magical princesses is always worthwhile. Erin used ChatGPT to write the CircuitPython code for this project, and the guide also has a page that shows the prompts and process she used to create this code. Full tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/sound-reactiv ..read more

Check out the latest tutorial from Erin St Blaine: Make custom moving eye graphics for your EyeLights LED glasses that wink, blink, and wiggle. This is an easy tutorial that’s fun to do with kids. They will love wearing the light-up shades showing images they designed themselves. From the guide: Create custom pixel graphics for your LED Glasses and show off your style. These attention-getting glasses are so much fun to customize and to wear. The build is super easy – just plug the controller board into the glasses, attach the frames, and you’re ready to upload your custom eye graphics. This ..read more

Shared by Azaryia on Thingiverse: Darth Bane’s orbalisk armor mask from Star Wars Legends! This has been a long-term cosplay goal of mine to make, and I finally finished it! Darth Bane is hands down my favorite Sith Lord from across both Legends and Canon (ever heard of the Rule of Two?! Case closed!). I included the overall model as a single STL, as well as the same model split into 4 pieces. I have a small print bed, so needed to split it up to print. Also, this model was made pretty exactly to fit my face – you may want/need to scale it up a bit before printing Enjoy the power of the Dar ..read more

Create your own Dawnguard armour from Skyrim. Art of Armor. ArmorySmith shared this video on Youtube! It’s great to make functional armor from the games I’ve played a while ago. This was an interesting one, a helmet from Skyrim, Dawnguard. The visor in this helmet can be raised but can’t be fixed in a closed position, which makes it not suited for buhurt fights but great for cosplay ..read more

We had a wonderful time exploring and exhibiting at Maker Faire Bay Area 2023. Maker Faire has been on hiatus the last few years, since the COVID pandemic shut down events all over the world.  This year it returned in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a brand-new location right on the waterfront in Vallejo, CA. Vallejo is a suburb of the San Francisco area, and is home to a lot of art warehouses and build spaces. Artists have been moving en masse out of Oakland and SF over the last few years due to rising rents and limited space, especially during the challenging pandemic years when artis ..read more