Rhea’s Halloween Costume Pt.2

For my costume, I have decided to narrow down on Edward Scissorhand’s hands. Out of all my ideas, that spoke to me the most but is also the most recognizable piece from this costume. For my costume, I will be wearing a black goth sweater, black skirt, stockings and black combat boots. For the Scissorhands themselves, I have ordered black gloves. I was stuck ideating on what I want the scissors themselves to be made out of – my options were foam, chipboard or foil. After some research, I felt like foam could come off easily and would be heavy and foil could make the costume look too scrappy, so I decided to go with chipboard that will be painted over.

My intention with this costume is to spook people in some way but also to add humor. Edward, in the movie is severely misunderstood but I want to change the story from misunderstanding and rejection to togetherness and love. For the interactive part of this costume, when the scissorhands are still, a white light will shine, and when I “cut through the air” with them, red strips of light will show up. As recommended, for this costume, I will be making only one scissorhand so I can use my other hand at the parade.

At the moment, I have already received my gloves. I have found a stencil that I will use to cut out the scissorhands and have ordered a “goth” edward-like sweater.

Materials and Parts (taken from chatgpt)

✅ Costume Build: gloves, chipboard, paint, elastic, glue, tape
✅ Electronics Core: Arduino Nano, 5 flex sensors, 10kΩ resistors, 5 neopixel strips, 330Ω resistors
✅ Power System: power bank, USB cable
✅ Connections: breadboard, jumper wires, switch
✅ Finish: shrink tubing, decorative hardware

To- do List

1. Cut stencil and then chipboard according to Scissorhands shape.
2. Paint the scissorhands silver.
3. Use glue and tape to tape them onto the gloves.
4. Build the arduino circuit.
5. Find a way to incorporate circuit into the gloves.

Circuit Diagram

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/hwCNGWEKlpk-edward-scissorhands

Update – 10/21/2025

This week I worked on 3d printing and ordering more materials. Manya, Anusha and I placed an order on adafruit and I got 3 flex sensors that should be there for tomorrow’s class.

Big thank you to Jimmy also for teaching me solidworks and teaching me how to 3d print. We did however, have to put a pause to the printing process because I need clarity on how to connect the neopixels to the scissorhands .

Materials and Parts (taken from chatgpt)

✅ Costume Build: gloves (https://tinyurl.com/mwx8ranh), chipboard, paint, elastic, glue, tape
✅ Electronics Core: Arduino Nano, 1 flex sensor (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1070), 10kΩ resistors, 5 neopixel strips, 330Ω resistors
✅ Power System: power bank, USB cable
✅ Connections: breadboard, jumper wires, switch
✅ Finish: shrink tubing, decorative hardware

Remaining Tasks

1. 3D print scissorhands
2. Run code
3. Build circuit
4. Attach scissorhands to glove
5. Position circuit inside gloves and scissorhands.

Updated Tinkercad

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/f7w2GGomA7L-scissorhands-pt-2

Update – 10/28/2025

This week, I worked on 3d printing my scissorhands. I printed one to test it out. The rest are currently in the process of printing and will be done by tomorrow’s class.

I also soddered the flex sensor and one neopixel on but I’m waiting for the rest of the scissorhands to print to be able to measure the length of the wire. I also tried testing out the code and was able to make the neopixel white but need help with getting it to detect the flex and turn red.

During tomorrow’s class, I want to work on my code. I am also gonna finish the rest of the neopixel soddering and build the circuit.

Then, I am going to use E600 to glue everything together before Friday! And the flex sensor will be sewn on.

Thank you ✂️