Ben Heck’s guide to making your own Halloween costume
It’s almost time for Halloween! Ben and Karen put their heads together to design an electronics superhero costume, filled with sound effects and highlighted with electroluminescent wire. Ben starts to prototype the circuitry using an i2c connected LSM303DLH accelerometer sensor, which is connected to a Parallax Propeller development stick. Unfortunately, this isn’t actually that easy, and Ben is forced to debug the connections to the i2c circuit with an oscilloscope.
Once Ben has the code ready for testing, it’s time for Karen to calibrate the sensors with kicks, punches and a little dancing. Finally, what’s a superhero without the correct attire? Karen walks through the group’s ideas so far and considers laser-cutting skirts and trousers with a superhero logo to give them some extra style. Meanwhile, you can submit your own design ideas over at the element14 Community.
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