Does anyone here have experience driving serial LED arrays?

I wanna be the glowiest fox that's ever foxed.

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?

This totally means I'm planning to hand-solder several dozen 5mm SMT LEDs, while they're glued in place to a plastic that melts.

I'm hoping this is ambition and not just foolishness :)

I should probably spin up a Replica Prop Forum account to ask a lot of these questions :)

Then again, I don't actually know if original builds fall under that site's purview...

Today @rowanyote and I got a vacu-form box about half finished. Gonna use a cannibalized IR space heater which should warm the plastic really evenly.

Huh, this might be the first time I've built my own tool.

Neat :)