Schlautmatrix - Last minute LED jacket rebuild
A few weeks back a friend introduced us to the enigmatic DJ Schlaut. Turns out he was performing a gig that Saturday, and needed to get his old LED jacket up and running. He asked us if we’d be able to throw some animations on it. How hard could that be we thought - assuming this was a working outfit and we just had to do a little bit of coding to make it work. Oh how naive we were!…
Turns out the suit was in a sorry state, 4 panels of 16x16 WS2812 LEDs were attached with velcro to the jacket, along with a mess of wiring and a big old Arduino Uno connected to a 50W mains PSU….yes, mains.
We got our hands on the suit on Thursday night, so we had a few hours that evening, all of Friday night, and up until 7pm on Saturday to get the thing working again. This was going to be quite a task, but we were up for it…