Sick of LEDs shining directly in your eyes? We are too!
This design has the LEDs mounted inside the curves of this serpentine strip so that the LED faces down towards the the fabric and what you see is the light reflected off the surface of the fabric.
This design was first developed for Boris’s Breathing Vest, a commission to the KOBA e-textile tailor shop.
MAKING OF:
Sew the strip with three lines of solderable conductive thread:
Interrupt the middle line where you want to mount the LEDs and then solder in place:
Soldered LEDS:
Sew a layer of insulating reflective fabric ontop to cover conductive traces, but cut holes where the LEDs are:
Early trials and prototypes:
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