Led Shirt - ESP8266 - WS2812B

Description

I once entered a running event called "Electric Run"
Its a 5km run with lights and glow. I fabricated some leds onto a t-shirt controller with some ne555 timers and a very annoying strobe light was build.

So i wanted a new version: Led shirt 2.0

So I powered up some:
Led Panel of ws2812b led's driven by a esp8266.
With lithium battery's to make it portable.
The Android device acts as an access-point.
And can drive multiple panels simultaneously

AND DAMN THATS A LOT OF LIGHT

Details

I'll keep the end movie updated here:

ESP8266

- Using UDP Multicast packages
- Refreshing at 60fps
- Using the i2s ws2812b library from cnlohr

Currently implemented in Android app:

Effects:
-Strobe
-Pulse
-Sound Effect(via microphone)
-Shake Effect(via accelerometer)

Text Functions:
-Scroll text individual
-Scroll text multiple
-Still text multiple
-Receive text over external apps(Whatsapp) and send to shirt.

Games:
-Snake (realtime, controls via Android)
-Pong (realtime, controls via Android)
-Pong Multiplayer (2nd Android phone connects over WiFi)
-Tetris
- Multi screen support, games can be played with a span over multiple shirts.

Icons:
-Beer empty
-Beer full
-Hearth
-Boobs
-The Finger
-Male ....
-Seringe
-Like
-Color picker

Animations:

-GIF animations parser
-Led Fill
-Led moving
-Led moving 2
-Led random
-Color horizontal
-Color vertical
-Color random (all panels same)
-Color random (all panels different)
-Color transition
-Rainbow
-Bouncing boobs(via accelerometer)
-Frequency Analyzer (Realtime microphone -> FFT)

Photo of Frequency Analyzer , mounted on t-shirt

Components

1 × ESP8266-07

2 × NCR18650 2300mah

2 × WS2812B 1M led strip

1 × LM2587

1 × AMS1117-3.3

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Multi shirt - games and text
Willem Wouters • 12/21/2015 at 18:18 • 0 comments

Ok, after some hard work on the Android app, got games also playable over multi shirt.
Cleaning up the controller
Willem Wouters • 12/14/2015 at 21:32 • 0 comments

Ok, First prototype had a bunch of wires to the boost converter and back,
So etched a main board. Hooked everything together, and its looking much better.

Also made some small pcbs attached to the led strips to make the soldering more easy.
Velcro & t-shirt
Willem Wouters • 11/24/2015 at 22:23 • 0 comments

So, added some velcro onto the panel,
Added some velcro onto a thirt.
4 panels
Willem Wouters • 11/12/2015 at 00:30 • 0 comments

And the app controlling it:
Hardware prototypes
Willem Wouters • 11/04/2015 at 20:26 • 0 comments

Some photo's of the prototypes hardware
Adding some software features ;0
Willem Wouters • 10/24/2015 at 00:43 • 0 comments
Attempt 3.. The panel
Willem Wouters • 10/24/2015 at 00:42 • 0 comments

The panel, nice and flexible... Thats the one
Attempt 2, a panel mounted on a safety vest
Willem Wouters • 10/24/2015 at 00:40 • 0 comments

The panel got way too rigid, it looks cool, it works.... but improving..
First attempt... conductive wire :(
Willem Wouters • 10/24/2015 at 00:37 • 0 comments

The conductive wire had a too big voltage drop, the lower you get the more yellow they get.
Nope.... Too bad

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Discussions

Chip Stewart wrote 08/24/2016 at 20:07

I Googled "WS2812B flexible clothing panels" and saw many available, for as little as $30 or so from Alibaba and Aliexpress. It looks like many of them are in silicone mats. Would these work? Seems like a good way to make them easier and less expensive to make. Also, what about neodymium magnet tape to hold them on? I just found the app online and can't wait to give it a try.

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rajkumar.thavti wrote 04/14/2016 at 12:33

Really its awesome project...What was the cost incurred for 1 t shirt .. including all the circurtury..

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data wrote 01/23/2016 at 17:49

Will you open source the android app?

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Willem Wouters wrote 01/24/2016 at 08:16

Yes, I'm planning to make the app open source. But at the moment there is too much hack code in. I first want to clean up the app before I release it.

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nbietz wrote 01/07/2018 at 09:18

Did you publish the ESP8266 code or the android code?

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1csnead69 wrote 12/24/2015 at 14:04

Thanks for taking the time to make and upload this project. Great project. I'm going to make one for a friend of mine that is a professional karaoke dj.

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Mauimacman wrote 12/04/2015 at 15:25

great stuff

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Led Shirt - ESP8266 - WS2812B

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Multi shirt - games and text

Cleaning up the controller

Velcro & t-shirt

4 panels

Hardware prototypes

Adding some software features ;0

Attempt 3.. The panel

Attempt 2, a panel mounted on a safety vest

First attempt... conductive wire :(

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