With my base dress done, I decided the next step is to get my electronics done.
As I want my LED lights to be dispersed all over the dress, I had to cut the strips to get 30 individual LEDs. I had to solder 30 LEDs to the wires and to the copper stripboard which holds the arduino nano and other components. At first, soldering was quite difficult for me as I kept trying to make the wires stick onto the copper plates but it keeps getting loose. A few trial and errors later, I eventually got the hang of soldering. The important point of soldering is getting enough solder on the copper plate first then placing the wires over and getting more solder over it. To secure the wires and LED lights on the dress, I sew on each LED to the dress. Also, I color coded the wires with 2 different colored permanent marker at the ends of the wires (in case the wire came out, I will know which plate to connect to).
Taking into account that the PIR sensors cannot be covered up, it has to be exposed to work. Thus, I had to plan the openings for the organza layer to allow the PIR sensors to be slotted through.
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