Does anyone here have experience driving serial LED arrays?

I'm fairly confident in the mechanical construction, less so on the coding.

Okay so the overall plan here is to vacu-form a fox mask out of translucent plastic, then glue a bunch of addressable LEDs to the inside of the mask and drive 'em with a microcontroller.

First step is probably making sure the vac forming works out? Need to pick a plastic. Want something thermoformable, translucent, a little bit flexible, and able to be glued to with silicone or hot glue.

Maybe polystyrene?

@starkatt do you know Phil Burgess, they’re howtopaintyourdragon over on birdsite? I’m pretty sure they’ve vacuum formed parts before.

@Leucrotta haaah, I was just reading his documentation on Adafruit for the LEDs I wanna use :D

@starkatt he’s an amazing guy. You know how most of us have 20 ideas and maybe at best we do five and they’re probably kinda wonky? Phil will have only five ideas and he’ll execute all five, and they’ll be nigh flawless.

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