This RGB marriage ceremony costume mimics Princess Aurora’s from Sleeping Magnificence

Impressed by his Christmas tree’s RGB lights, Brett Haddoak had the concept to show his now-wife Rachelle’s marriage ceremony costume into one thing out of the basic youngsters’s film Sleeping Magnificence by embedding a sequence of RGB LED strips that will elegantly illuminate it identical to Princess Aurora’s.

At first, Haddoak selected to easily take the Christmas lights off of his tree and fix them to the costume, however this proved to be non-ideal because the space coated wasn’t sufficient. Moreover, the app that controls the string of lights was unreliable, thus making a DIY resolution essential. His preliminary take a look at concerned taking a pair WS2812B strips, wrapping them round a chair, and testing out a blue to pink transition animation that’s carried out by an Arduino Nano and the FastLED library. That idea turned out fairly effectively, so Haddoak moved onto the subsequent step of integrating the lights into material and toying with the brightness.

As soon as he had completed laying out the entire {hardware} and fine-tuning the colours, Haddoak had used 1,200 LEDs throughout the complete costume. The excessive energy consumption pressured him so as to add a pair of battery banks that would ship round 6A in complete, and since the Arduino was solely capable of management a most of 600 LEDs earlier than working out of reminiscence, Haddoak additionally linked a second Nano for the opposite 600. 

Though there have been a few snags alongside the best way, the end result was unimaginable based on Haddoak. Watch the video under to see the color-changing costume in motion and make sure to learn in regards to the fairytale venture in additional element right here on his weblog.