Flexible LED Strip Lights

[87RB30VL]

Ok so I am making a costume for next month's Supanova event, & I am going as a Helghast Soldier from the game Killzone.

I need to find some LED strips I can glue to the inside of the goggles I have so when I turn them on, the eyes of my goggles glow. If all else fails, or It blinds me, I'll just stick orange celephane over the lenses lol but I would prefer them to glow.

Anyone know where you can buy these LED lights locally? I've tried eBay but they all come in like 500m rolls and are from Hong Kong, and since I pretty much have this week and next week to get ready, I don't have time to buy from overseas.

Anyone know if Dick smith or anyone sells them? I know they have LED's but I haven't seen the strips anywhere.

Like these but orange:



This is the costume I am making:

[Drawnnite]

RGB Lighting
very expensive, but you can make literally any colour you want.

you could always check ebay, but yeah. might not be very cheap.
also needs to be controlled, and have power supplied. so might mean bypassing the 240/24 transformer if you just have a battery pack.

[87RB30VL]

Shit that is expensive considering I only need a strip of like, 4 maybe 5 LED's. I might try to find a Dick Smith & may have to just wire up a few single LED's

[SUSS8]

I got a little strip of bright white ones if h only need like 4-5 of them.

[Drawnnite]

yeah that would be the other option. wiring up a few LEDS.

could go to Jaycar or somewhere of the like. they should have all you need.
and it would be pretty cheap aswell.

but yeah ribbon LEDS are not exactly cheap

[SUSS8]

Just pm me ur address, I'll check exactly how many there are

[Biznatch303]

There are cheap as ones on ebay man

[87RB30VL]

Just pm me ur address, I'll check exactly how many there are

I need Orange ones

There are cheap as ones on ebay man

Yeah I saw those, ones from Hong Kong? Like, rolls of 300, 500 etc, but I dunno if they would get here in time

[Jecs]

i deal with this place for work, they've got LED strips mostly used for houses n shit. dunno if you can wire it to suit. either way good for ideas

http://ns.prime-electronics.com.au/i...hp/strips.html

[VKCOMMO]

My ones from eBay arrived in about a week or less...

[iluvnorks]

I have got some SMD LED''s flexible strips similar to this. Got it from a bloke on a 4WD forum. Cost me $25 a metre. Comes in different colours.. Its 12v stuff though so not sure if its any good for your application..

LED Strip installation

[Blazed1101]

ive got a few warm white 12v ones i would be happy to sell if your happy to pay postage as well, they are about 80Cm long with roughly a 6mm LED every 1.2 Cms, they have "3M" adhesive on the back (they from china so really dont think it "3M" is lol). they also full water proof as well if you want some under lighting for the car as well lol.. shoot me a PM if anyone is intrested

EDIT \: they are also cutable every 6 LEDs

[fuzzy2308]

i got mine from here
LED Lighting

[ToMMMaY]

jaycar....

[ari666]

+1 jaycar

walk in. buy them. walk out.

[Jonesy484]

+2 jaycar or ebay

[87RB30VL]

I stopped in at Jaycar at Aspley and the guy who served me is one of the judges who does the costume judging at supanova lol, he reckons I would get utterly blinded by LED strips and to buy "EL Wire" from this website but it's like $25 not including postage, and I dunno if I want to pay that much for something I won't even use 100% of, and only use like, twice.

[tothezenith]

What you're trying to achieve is done with electroluminesent (EL) panel.

Try this : EL Panel - 7cm X 11cm Thin A7 Sheet of Tron Neon Strip | eBay

[acex1138]

as an old school gamer who has been gaming most of his life....

please for hte love of god can you people please stop with your cosplay!

If only it wasnt illegal to run over every sweaty nerd who dresses up as masterchief or a nintendo character..... your why I cant go to conventions i'd murder you all.

And yeah anime cosplay people nuff said.


Anyways bro dont go with the flexi LED's im guessing your doing the red eye helgast thing? im guessing your not going to build the helmet your just going to modify one you have? what your planning to do will blind you...

if you rip apart of a lot of stuff that uses bright LED's your actually not seeing the LED your seeing something its refracting off you got two ways around this and have to play around.

You can get a piece of perspex cut it out to fit your goggles and fit your bright LED at the bottom or top, u might have to use concave perspex, and wrap the LED up so its only shining into the perspex. You will have to play around with this..... only time i've done this was to build a lightsaber for a costume when I was 10.

just got a tube of perspex and at the bottom had some led's and a battery pack gaff taped it to a metal cylinder job done.

[87RB30VL]

Thanks for everyone's help, and those who said I couldn't do it or get blinded, well...



BOOM.

And yes, I could see.

And yes, I just used single LED's wires in a semi-circle.

And yes, I got alot of attention.

and I got on TV. And on the Courier Mail website.

Supernova expo | Supanova geeks and freaks | Courier Mail

Oh yeah, Acex1138, a convention without Cosplay would just be like going to a massive Supermarket for anime stuff.

[Rufys]

And you're proud of all that???

I prefer these outfits...

[acex1138]

only acceptable cosplay ever is bikini models going slave leia...

[DAKSTER]

Somehow I dont think he would look as good in those costumes as they do...

[87RB30VL]

I'd look awesome in those costumes! I was talking to them, their costumes were awesome, spesh' the chick on the right's wings.

Acex, you could pull off crossplaying maybe?