Luminous Cyberpunk Costume

Cutting through the competition and lighting up the night has never looked so good! Costumer Melissa Li created two awe inspiring cyberpunk costumes which took years to develop and months to construct.

Here's a bit on the top look, called 2.0:

The assembly is made from over 60 parts designed in Solidworks and sewn/cut/glued/laser-cut/heat-formed using various techniques.

The costume includes color changing LEDs on the spine and front that are controlled by an Arduino microcontroller and onboard RGB controllers (respectively), and is powered by 16 AA batteries, 1 LiPo rechargeable battery, two 2032 coin cells, and one 9-volt battery. In total there's more than 70 LED's on the entire costume and over 60 parts.

And here's a bit on the bottom look, the original 1.0:

Design was based on actual spinal transverse sections and lit with ~40 LED's. Design and assembly of smaller accessory pieces for shoulders, chest, and arm were found pieces or designed in Solidworks. In total, ~46 pieces put together over a period of ~2 months.

Link  --via BoingBoing