sophia’s confirmed costume: SIMS!

Ana and I are creating a light up plumbob – aka the triangular form that hovers above the Sims characters head. Specifically, we will be going as the pleasant twins, Angela and Lilith. Our intention is to make people smile because I think the costume is clever and the Sims is a pretty nostalgic for many people.

I will be Lilith who is on the right!

I will be wearing a green sweater over a white turtleneck with pants because I don’t want to freeze my butt off in a skirt while outside haha. We will also both be getting red wigs to really complete the look for this costume.

In terms of the light up portion of the costume, it will be a plastic triangular form made of PET Blank Mylar Sheets. The pieces will be glued together into the form and filled with the programmed lights and some kind of filling like stuffing or sheets of tissue paper. We will then connect it to the headband with some sort of thick wire so it is wearable.

Complete Material List:

• Green sweater
• White turtleneck
• Red wig
• Pants or skirt of some kind
• White shoes
• Headband
• Wire
• PET Blank Mylar Stencil Sheets
• Super glue
• Stuffing or tissue paper
• Lights
• Button
• String

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TYNSD4Y/ref=twister_B00TYNS628?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

https://a.co/d/bOAyRpb

Arduino Techniques:

We will be using a button so that when the button is pressed it changes the color of the triangle. In the sims game, the triangle color shows the characters current emotion so we will be able to cycle through a list of colors to show that. I am hoping to have the wire run out the back of the triangle and the button be located on the headband.

Circuit Diagram:

So I started doing the circuit diagram and I am honestly kind of confused. I understand the Ground and 5V on the light strip but I know we aren’t using our big Arduino board anymore so I’m not sure what that looks like. I know it will have a battery, a button, the lights, and some sort of program board I think the Gemma one we had in class… I will clarify this later.

To-Do List:

we still need to do pretty much everything… oops… but we have basically all the materials so we are ready to get started. the list is as follows…

– solder the lights

– program the lights

– construct and fill the triangle

– attach triangle to the head band

UPDATE:

things are happeningggg! first and foremost all non-light up parts of costume have been secured. wigs have been obtained and tried, headbands ordered, and outfits picked out. we also ordered longer cords to connect the plumbob to the battery pack while keeping the battery in our back pocket.

plumbob has been folded and is ready to be glued!

wire has been put through the headband! and plumbob will be secured on it

gemma board has been connected and wired to two neopixel strips that will be back to back inside the plumbob

here is also a close-up of the button which is also connected to the gemma but with a very long skinny wire so it can run out of the bottom plumbob, down the thick wire, and onto the headband to press which will trigger the colors

and here is the corrected circuit diagram with gemma, neopixels, and button. we have finished the button cycler code to run through our five colors which are triggered each time the button is pressed

and that’s all! very close to having it all assembled just fixing some issues