How I setup my lights - LED Shirt

December 19, 2016 (Last Modified: December 19, 2016)

This is the seventh post in my series on how I setup my christmas lights

Links to rest of series:

Post 1 - The controllers
Post 2 - The megatree
Post 3 - Arches, candy canes, small spiral trees and large spiral tree
Post 4 - Nativity Scene
Post 5 - Windows, Singing Tree and tune-to sign
Post 6 - Palm trees, carport and roofline
Post 7 - LED Shirt

This post focuses on my LED shirt. To see it in action check it out on youtube

My LED shirt is actually an apron I wear under a plain t-shirt (so the shirt can still be washed 😉) It is made from a 5m led strip running on 5V The strip is 150 individual WS2811 pixels split into 15 sections of 10 pixels. The entire strip is connected to a Pixel-Wifi (ESPPixelstick clone) powered by a small USB battery. The Pixel-Wifi support E1.31 so the shirt is treated as a small matrix in my display. I made the apron from some fabric scraps my wife had – the strips are then sewn onto the apron with some electrical tape keeping them in spot.