Color Changing/Sound Activated LED Jacket

Using a Circuit Playground Express and some LEDs you can upcycle a jacket from the back of your closet to the front of stage!

By the end of this instructable you will have created a stylish LED jacket featuring:

- 7 Color modes

- 4 Pattern modes

- Sound Activation

1x Circuit Playground Express

1x USB Powerpack/ Battery Pack

Addressable LEDs – These prewired ones made it a lot easier!

Wires!

Needle and Thread

Old Jacket

Measure wire lengths from Led sleeves to power source. For ease, I ran full length from both arms to a front pocket that will be used to house the Circuit Playground Express(CPX) and battery module.

Both strips will connect to the same data/power/ground so feel free to splice the respective wires together anywhere along the path. I just waited until the end.

(Optional) – Add connectors to ends of wiring/led strips if you want to make it modular.

Since the the leds are pre-wired, I laid them out on top of the sleeves and cut them as I went. Weaving them= strip through the holes I learned the smaller you can make the slits the better the leds will hold in place before sewing.

Hand sew each led so it doesn’t twist or pull though the slits as you wear and stretch the jacket. In the future I will probably sew in more of the wiring as

Wiring the CPX is simple...

LEDS

-Data wires from both arm strips connect to A1

-Ground wires to ground

-Power wires to Vout

Programming was not as simple but not too hard with the drag and drop coding UI!

- A and B buttons scroll through color/pattern options

- A+B changes color/pattern mode

- Switch toggles sound activation

Makecode below: Project on Makecode!