Motion Controlled Wearable LED Dance Harness
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Stress Testing in the Field
Benchtop Tests
I tested the harnesses with the new motion controller using a benchtop power supply again for about 60 minutes. At 9V with the motion controller and 78x LEDs, the circuit pulled about ~452mA. At 9V with the motion controller and 90x LEDs (one of my students was a bit taller than the others), it pulled about ~485mA.
Studio Tests
I then tried it out at a studio with choreography using 9V batteries. As noted earlier, I had to add some padding and be aware of how tightly the harness was secured for each dancer so that the LEDs would trigger as expected. Here's a quick demo of it in action.
Dress Rehearsal
After testing and adjusting the code several times, everything went as planned during their dress rehearsal!
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Show Time!
With fresh batteries, everything went as planned during the show! I also had some extra batteries, multimeter, tape, and scissors in case I needed to do some last minute troubleshooting.
While I am not able to share the performance with the music, here's some footage of the controller in action backstage! Just ignore my obnoxious voice screaming with excitement behind the camera.