Video of Lady Luminance

Lady Luminance

Inspired by Lady Gaga’s outrageous fashions, Lady Luminance is at first glance, an elaborate headpiece, but when activated, becomes an interesting lightshow on the head. If one wanted to wow the crowd, Lady Luminance is the way to go.

Lady Luminance has a built in light sensor which determines how fast the lights flash. If worn in a well lit room, the lights will change and illuminate the flowers in the headpiece in a slow and subtle way. However, if worn in a dark room, the lights would cycle through quickly, which is when the real excitement begins. In the dark is where one can see the full beauty of this piece, with each flower glowing brightly and changing colours in a fast, pulsating way. It is a perfect accessory for costume or dance parties.

FINISHED!!

So I've finally finished my headband! Here are some quick pictures of how it looks like. More high res pics will be taken later.

Work in Progress

Wiring the LEDs onto the headband with conductive thread...

It works!

More code testing

So I went to uni today for the extra session to get help with my code. After talking with Anne, Doug and Rohan, I finally got my code working to how I wanted! Now all that's left is to test it out with multiple LEDs and assemble the whole thing.

LED Testing 2

Coded the LEDs so that if there is low light, the LED's light pattern will cycle faster and when there is lots of light, it will cycle slower. It's not perfect yet but getting there...

The coding side of things...

I played around with Arduino today and after hours of being stuck at a dead end, I managed to figure out a few things. I have managed to make it so that when the light sensor has little light, the LED would fade in and out of red and when there is lots of light, it would fade in and out of green. I'm getting there!

Luminosity Test

Testing out how well the material diffuses the light from LEDs.

It still diffuses nicely even with the paper as a frame.

Headband Work in Progress

Here are some pics of my headband in development:

I decided to make the flowers out of 2 different types of material to add some variation to the piece. I have chosen cotton and gauze material for the flowers because both these fabrics diffuse light in an interesting and different way.

Although manipulating the gauze material was simple enough, I initially had trouble folding origami roses with the white cloth since it is very flimsy and difficult to manipulate. However, I managed to find a way around it by folding the cloth with some paper to get a nice looking flower.

Concept Inspiration

Image Sources:
http://ladygagahot.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Lady-GaGa-at-Grammys-2010.jpg
http://ladygagahot.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Lady-GaGa-at-Jet-Nightclub.jpg
http://ladygagahot.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Lady-GaGa-in-March-of-2010.jpg

Inspired by Lady Gaga's outrageous head wear, I want to create a headband that is costume like, something that would not usually be worn on a typical day. I want to create a flower arrangement on the headband with an LED inside each flower, illuminating it. The flowers would glow in a certain light pattern depending on a light sensor.