Electronic Demon Costume Tutorial

Costumes, Cosplay, and Props

Halloween is right around the corner, and this awesome electronic demon costume is sure to cause a ruckus on your trick-or-treating adventures. The costume features glowing EL wire wings and horns, an animated LED matrix face, and an Arduino-based voice changer, and Adafruit gives you the tutorials you need to make one of your own.

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Spark the demon, as heโ€™s known, wasnโ€™t carefully planned out, and heโ€™s had some upgrades since his beginning, but the process started out pretty simply. After all, the whole project is run on one Arduino! The face is composed of a Halloween-style mask, (something like a Nightmare on Elm Street โ€œJasonโ€ hockey mask will do) and then the electronics for the eyes and mouth were attached to the top of the mask. A flat piece of plastic was added over the electronics to keep them from bulging through the bodysuit. The bodysuit is a black Morphsuit, and even though it looks like it would be opaque, itโ€™s surprising that you can actually still see through it pretty well. Spark has since acquired some wings and horns, and youโ€™re encouraged to experiment with your own ideas as well.

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