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Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments scottbezek.blogspot.com

danilafe10 minutes ago

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

Razengan13 minutes ago

Reminds me of a Japanese tech demo on YouTube I can't find right now, of projecting a flexible hologram on to a t-shirt with invisible markers.

scottbez1op4 hours ago

Author here, happy to answer any questions!

bigwheels20 minutes ago

Just want to say- this is a really neat idea and project!

scottbez1op18 minutes ago

AliExpress and Adafruit, e.g. https://www.adafruit.com/product/5867

verdverm4 hours ago

Have you thought about ways to make the lights detachable so you can wash the garment? Or is the trade off at a point where redoing it is easier overall?

scottbez1op4 hours ago

It’s maybe plausible to gently wash it with the filaments still attached? I did actually use connectors so the shirt could be detached from the drive electronics, though I’d be a bit worried whether the stitches would survive and corrosion on the solder joints. Adhesive/waterproof heat shrink could maybe help?

The other option is maybe attach the filaments to an embroidery style patch instead of the shirt itself and then attach it with Velcro to the shirt?

4d4m4 hours ago

The pwm animation/flicker/ramp up was a REALLY nice touch

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