How to Make Two Daft Punk Outfits With Helmets

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How To Make Two Daft Punk Outfits with Helmetsby derektroyweston March 18, 2009

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How To Make Two Daft Punk Outfits with Helmets .....................................................................................

Intro: How To Make Two Daft Punk Outfits with Helmets .............................................................................

Step 1: Ingredients .........................................................................................................

Step 2: Suppliers ...........................................................................................................

Step 3: Making the Outfits ....................................................................................................

Step 4: Making the Helmets ...................................................................................................

File Downloads ........................................................................................................... 1

Step 5: Battery Timings ...................................................................................................... 1

Related Instructables ........................................................................................................ 1

Comments ................................................................................................................ 1
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Intro: How To Make Two Daft Punk Outfits with HelmetsFor my 30th Birthday I decided to have a D-Themed costume party, my girlfriend Kylie and I decided that we would go as Daft Punk. The costumes were quite involvemake, but we had lots of fun and they looked great!

We used a lot of resources from the internet, including a great article on how to stitch EL wire into clothes that I found here: http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-adEL-wire-to-a-coat-or-other-garment/.

I also learned a lot about prototyping boards (particularly the Arduino, and its clone the Seeeduino) and really enjoyed tinkering around with LED Arrays, learning thedifference between common cathode and common anode, figuring out how breadboards work, and just generally collecting heaps of post at work from various electroand EL wire companies.

Here's a few videos showing the final result, so you can decide whether you want to bother reading any further:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-Two-Daft-Punk-Outfits-with-Helmets/http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-Two-Daft-Punk-Outfits-with-Helmets/http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-Two-Daft-Punk-Outfits-with-Helmets/http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-add-EL-wire-to-a-coat-or-other-garment/http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-add-EL-wire-to-a-coat-or-other-garment/


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Step 1:IngredientsQuite a few bits and bobs went into the outfits, here's a list of what we used.

Before you start, I'd recommend finding a talented, amazing girlfriend who can sew 100m of fishing wire and 75m of EL wire into two outfits and have the result look julike the Daft Punk originals. You can't have mine though.

Outfits

1. Two Pairs of Jeans.2. Two Jackets.3. One Black Fabric Dye Pack.4. 65m of EL Wire, cut to different lengths and pre-soldered to order.5. Four KL10 Power Packs for the EL Wire.6. Four 1.5m EL Wire Extension Wires.7. Four 1-3 EL Wire Splitters.8. 100m of Fishing Wire.9. Two Blunt Sewing Needles.10. One Box of Plasters.11. Four 9v (PP3) Batteries.

Helmets

1. Two Black Box WIred Motorcycle Helmets.2. Two Black Visors (not street legal in the UK).3. Two 5m Lengths of EL Wire, pre-soldered to order.4. Two KH4 Battery Packs for the EL Wire.5. Two Seeeduino (Arduino clone) Prototype Boards.6. Two Max7221 LED Control Chips.7. Two Breadboards.8. Two 8x8 RGB Common Anode (Cathode would have been better) LED Arrays.9. Two Handfuls of Jumper Wires.10. Four AA Batteries.

I will upload the code I wrote for the Arduino that controls the LED array so you can use that too if you like. Even if you want to change the display it's probably easier start with something that works already.


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Step 3:Making the OutfitsMaking the outfits was the most time consuming part of the whole project.

Kylie found an image of Daft Punk in all their glowing splendour on-line and then sketched out a copy of the pattern on a piece of A5. She then spent about two weeks(weekends and evenings) sewing the 75m of EL Wire into the Jackets and Trousers with over 100m of fishing wire. She used fishing wire so the EL Wire wouldn't beobscured at all.

Before Kylie started sewing she figured out how many/what lengths of EL Wire we would need by dummying the pattern she had designed on the jackets and trouserswith a ball of string and sticky tape. I'm glad she thought of it, because that showed we needed about twice as much wire as I would have guessed.

We were planning on using two KL10 Power Packs per outfit, they run off a nine volt batters, and are recommended for up to 15m of wire. We used one 10m length ofwire for the trousers, one 10m length for the jacket, and either one or two 3m wires for the sleeves (Kylie's Jackets was smaller than mine, so the initial 10m covered ttorso and one sleeve).

We also decided that my jacket wasn't dark enough, so we dyed it in a bucket for an hour or so.

By the end of it Kylie had plasters on all her fingers and had just about lost her sanity. But it was worth it, the outfits looked amazing.

Note: You have to be careful not to bend the wire too sharply, otherwise it might have a little dark spot. The pattern Kylie came up with was very crafty and avoided shbends by going underneath the fabric in places. There is a great instructable on how to stitch EL Wire into clothing here: http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-add-Ewire-to-a-coat-or-other-garment/.
http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-add-EL-wire-to-a-coat-or-other-garment/http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-add-EL-wire-to-a-coat-or-other-garment/


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Step 4:Making the HelmetsAttaching EL Wire to the Helmets

I stuck the battery pack onto the back of the helmet using some simple matt black electricity tape. It held just fine and lasted all night. I then cut a couple of small holesthe base at the back of the helmet and threaded the start of the El Wire from the inverted, through the holes, and then back out again, just to anchor it in place.

I then used sticky tape to temporarily hold the wire in place and copied the Daft Punk pattern on their helmets as best as I could. I used a little black masking tape inplaces to hide the fact that the entire pattern was one long piece of wire.

After the pattern was in place my Sister then kindly glued the wire onto the helmet with quick-setting superglue. It held really well and is pretty much stuck on permaneas far as I can tell.

The EL Wire on the helmet can then be switched on/off just by tapping the button on the inverter at the back of the helmet.

Making the LED Display that goes inside the Helmet[All links to libraries, ide's etc are at the bottom of this page]

This was my main job of the project, and heaps of fun. I learnt a bunch about Arduinos, Seeeduinos, all sorts of electronics I haven't touched since Uni and the relativemerits of different types of sticky tape.

This bit might look complicated, but it really isn't. The Arduino community is amazing, there is so much open-source code available without which making this displaywould have been so much harder.

Apart from Daft Punk, the helmets were inspired a little by Casey Pugh, I found his video (http://vimeo.com/2402904?pg=embed&sec=2402904) when I was looking foideas for the helmet. I'd never even heard of an Arduino before Casey pointed me in that direction, a very good call. He made his own LED Array, I bought an RGB LeArray in that was commercially manufactured.

The first thing to do is buy an Arduino Duemilanove or Seeeduino (it's an Arduino clone). I bought one Arduino and two Seeeduinos, they're about ?20 each. I alsobought a little backing mount with a battery connector from www.skpang.co.uk, that's what made the whole project portable.

Also grab a bunch of LEDs, resistors and most importantly heaps of jumper wires, male and female.

After that, download the Arduino IDE from www.arduino.cc (it's all open source). Programming for an Arduino is very straight forward, I think it's a language calledProcessing, it's grammatically very similar to Java - very straight forward. I didn't bother to learn the language to any great degree, I just to example code and melded do what I wanted.

Once you're familiar with how to use the IDE and have run through a couple of examples (getting an LED to blink on and off on pin 13 is a good idea), download theLEDControl library. Kindly provided by Eberhard Fahle, it allows the Arduino to control a MAX7221 or MAX7219 chip, which is itself designed to control an 8x8 array oLED lights.

At this point you'll also need to take a good look at the schematics for how to wire up an Arduino to a MAX72XX to an LED Array. The link to the schematics is at thebottom of this page, I didn't use the capacitors in the end, only the resistor. It's not as complicated as it looks.
http://vimeo.com/2402904?pg=embed&sec=2402904


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I found the hardest parts to be:

1. Figuring out what the pins on the back of the LED Array did. You can see in the photo there are 32 pints (8 for a row, then 8 for each colour/column), they aren'tmarked with any numbers and the datasheet that skpang linked to had some of the pins reversed. I wrote a little test program for the Arduino that put two outputs highone second, then low for the next, repeated continuously. I then just kept plugging wires straight into the back of the LED until I'd figured out what the different pins did

2. Figuring out which resistor to use. I'm not an engineer or an electrician, and I'm also colourblind, so I found the resistor markings absolutely baffling. I just used trial error until I found a resistor that limited the brightness of the array to a good limit and didn't blow it.

As for wiring it all up, I just stuck the MAX7221 chip on a mini-breadboard with an adhesive backing, stuck some jumper wires down on the Arduino with sticky tape,plugged them into the breadboard, and then stuck the breadboard to the back of the Arduino in one little bundle. I then used male-female jumpers to connect thebreadboard to the LED Array, the female ends clicked onto the LED pins quite tightly so I didn't need to attach them with tape or anything.

I figure all of the electronic components of each helmet cost about ?60.

I then cut a large chunk of the polystyrene cushion out of the top of the helmet and embedded the arduino in the top, just above the forehead. I then stuck the LED Arronto the inside of the tinted visor with some more electric tape.

That's it done! It looked fantastic, even if I do say so myself. The code that I wrote for the Arduino is attached to this page in a .zip file, you're welcome to use it, changshare it as much as you like.

LinksArduino IDE http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/SoftwareLEDControl Library http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/LedControlMAX7221 Schematics http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/MAX72XXHardware

Here's a little video of the Arduino running a little Hello World test app:

And another of it running through most of the final program, it's just missing the game of PONG and a couple of Space Invaders I put in later:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-Two-Daft-Punk-Outfits-with-Helmets/step4/Making-the-Helmets/http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-Two-Daft-Punk-Outfits-with-Helmets/step4/Making-the-Helmets/http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/MAX72XXHardwarehttp://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/LedControlhttp://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software


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File Downloads

DaftPunkLED.zip(87 KB)[NOTE: When saving, if you see .tmp as the file ext, rename it to 'DaftPunkLED.zip']

Step 5:Battery TimingsHow long do the batteries last?

I couldn't find any real timings on how long batteries lasted with different lengths of EL WIre or a battery powered Arduino before I started. I was a little worred right upuntil the party that I'd be lit up like a Christmas tree for 15 minutes and then everything would go dark!

Our batteries ran for the following lengths of time:

1. One 9v battery running about 15 metres of Red Superbright EL Wire (2.5mm) on a KL10 Power Pack lasted about 2 hours.2. One 9v battery running about 13 metres of Red Superbright EL Wire (2.5mm) on a KL10 Power Pack lasted about 2.5 hours.3. Two AA batteries in a KH4B inverter ran 5 metres of Red Superbright EL Wire on the helmets for about 5 hours.

4. One 9v battery powered the Arduino, Max7221, and LED Array for about 4.5 hours running the program I attached to step 4.

Hope that helps, if you Daft Punk at Glastonbury this year be sure to say hello!Derek
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nin434says: Mar 8, 2011. 5:27 AM REPplease can u tell me where i can find a helmet like thomas bangalter, i really cant find any, and if u can, ill buy a full daftpunk suit from u, name your prise!!

T_T

rtty21says: Feb 2, 2011. 3:46 PM REPBOSS!

Da_Fudgesays: Jan 23, 2011. 3:39 AM REPYour guide inspired me to make a similar thing for my grade 11 formal. We ordered 16 MAX7219's, 16 Red LED Matrix's, a heap of batteries, 2 Arduino's,but only 20m of wire (10 red, 10 blue).

I wish we had have bought more wire, as we ran out, only being able to just outline everything. We also went to the op-shop and bought some second handinner suits, and put our wire on those. We ran out of time to finish them properly, and didn't even manage to get any of the matrix's hooked up and workinOn the afternoon of the formal, we threw together a night rider scanner and sound sensitive jaw of LED's.

I WILL be rebuilding these, using the matrix's, more wire, and maybe even some sequencing...

Thank's for the inspiration!
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bandgeekzaksays: Jan 12, 2011. 4:19 PM REPAbout how much did this cost? and i am only looking to make one costume. Guy's to be exact. so i just need a rough estimate of the cost.

derektroywestsays: Jan 24, 2011. 2:30 PM REPHey dude, I'm pretty sure the costumes were about 400 each, all electronics and stuff included.

tobymac987says: Dec 29, 2010. 10:33 PM REPHey buddy I just had a quick question. I am about to start working on this but was wondering. I am only making 1 costume right now. So how many feet of wire would I need for just 1 do you think? I know in the instructions you say 65M or el wire that rounds out to like 234 feet is that right or am i mis-understanding. I only ask because that seems like alot.

derektroywestsays: Jan 6, 2011. 6:41 PM REPHello mate,

It does sound like a lot but I'm pretty sure I bought 70m (it was a while ago now) and we used at least 65 of it. That's about 32.5m per costume.

You could probably use somewhere around 25m per costume, but it really tends to go quickly when you're winding it around and making patterns on thsleeves, legs, etc.

Good luck!

laurieannsays: Oct 31, 2010. 11:31 PM REPThanks for the instructable! I made a Daft Punk jacket for Halloween. Was super fun, and I made it so everything can blink or be constant.
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derektroywestsays: Nov 27, 2010. 12:50 PM REPWow! That jacket looks amazing.

finfan7says: Mar 21, 2009. 6:52 PM REPIt would be awesome to put an LED equaliser in the visor of one of the helmets.

agentsays: Oct 13, 2009. 7:50 PM REPWhen I make my suit (with several arduinos for 4 LED matrices) I'll try to do this! What I want to include is an MP3 (or maybe just Aux input) player in itThe equalizer idea isn't too bad :D

grrroundhawksays: Mar 6, 2010. 6:03 PM REPYOU SHOULD MAKE AN INSTRUCTABLE ON THAT.I WOULD BE FOREVER IN YOUR DEBT.

finfan7says: Mar 6, 2010. 6:08 PM REPI second that motion.

Pryo Chainsays: Sep 16, 2010. 8:56 PM REPI concur.

agentsays: Sep 29, 2010. 3:50 PM REPI finally have the means to actually do it, I'm finally going to start.

mspark400says: Oct 10, 2010. 4:06 PM REPYou can also chain several (up to 8 at least?) max27xx chips together very easily for multiple displays. One thing to consider howevis your current draw from multiple displays(on a full on intensity image, the ma's add up significantly).Best of luck to you.

cheers,Mspark400

hellonfire30says: Jun 22, 2010. 6:21 PM REPUmm can you put some pictures of the helmets to see how they turned out.

nin434says: Apr 23, 2010. 3:48 PM REPhow much will all of this cost... coz it looks like alot and im not that rich im just 13 years old

wannaburst27says: Feb 22, 2010. 7:46 PM REPdo i need to solder this at all??

derektroywestsays: Feb 23, 2010. 1:02 AM REPI didn't solder anything, instead I just incorporated the breadboards into the final helmets.

bp-builder-24says: Feb 21, 2010. 1:04 PM REP

Would I have to use both the Arduino and the Seeeduino, or can I just use the Arduino?

derektroywestsays: Feb 21, 2010. 2:16 PM REPThe seeeduino is just a smaller arduino clone, it's exactly the same thing. I just used Seeduino's when I build the helmets. (One for each helmet).

J whosays: Feb 19, 2010. 9:00 PM REPWhere did you guys get the jacket that looks like theres i need to know please.
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clonacianosays: Feb 13, 2010. 7:57 PM REPhow much would be the total cost for the two outfits and helmets with the EL wire and LED. Pleace respond me.Oh!!! and by the way, it looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

mjlynch712says: Jan 15, 2010. 7:21 PM REPFor the EL wire, how long did each battery last for?

Vablessays: Nov 17, 2009. 5:32 PM REPHow much did the EL wire cost? i leave near that shop so i was thinking of going down soon, i just wanna know how much im looking at before i go down lo

Vablessays: Nov 17, 2009. 5:35 PM REPi meant live..... sorry

TheSuperSoapsays: Oct 19, 2009. 6:01 PM REPI'm interested in building the helmet. Do I need to buy the breadboard for constructing the LED display?

derektroywestsays: Oct 20, 2009. 9:17 AM REPWell you probably don't have to, breadboards just make it easier to join pins together without soldering things. You could just wire it all up without thebreadboard, it's probably a bit strange to use a breadboard in a final product but I'm not very good with soldering or wiring stuff up, it was a bit of a chea

TheSuperSoapsays: Oct 20, 2009. 5:24 PM REPalright thanks! I'm not good at soldering either, so I'll follow your instructions with the breadboard.

borregotvsays: Oct 16, 2009. 3:59 PM REPjust want to make sure one thing is it really 65 METERS????!?!? are you sure?!?! thats a lot and to long, well for me; but anyways are you really sure its 6meters?

derektroywestsays: Oct 16, 2009. 4:55 PM REPYeah we bought 70m for two outfits, so 35m each. I know it sounds like a lot. I think we had about 10m left over, and you could probably use less. Butreckon you're looking at 20m per outfit at least.

Spartahsays: Oct 16, 2009. 10:37 PM REPfdsfs QR3RQ3FFEFWEXFDSdqeddc

SilasRsays: Oct 14, 2009. 11:38 AM REPdid you use continuous pieces of EL wire for the trousers/jacket or didyou cut it into pieces connected with cheaper more flexible wire?

derektroywestsays: Oct 14, 2009. 12:31 PM REPFour long pieces in total, two in each pair of trousers and two ineach jacket. That meant two KL10 power packs per outfit with a splitteron so it wouldpower two pieces of wire each.

BeanBotsays: Oct 4, 2009. 10:12 AM REPuhhhhhh..... randomly looking for a resistor till the leds come on is not smart. the resistor is there to limmit the current for the driver, not the leds. thebrightness should be controlled the the software

cowscankillsays: Sep 1, 2009. 6:17 AM REPThe suits look incredible, and your girlfriend is very talented! I might want to try this eventually, but I would need to research what EL Wire is and how to usit, etc.

00Donutsays: Aug 16, 2009. 11:30 PM REPHow was the LED arrays kept within the helmet, close up to the visor? And what color visor did you use, or what does it look better on?

derektroywestsays: Aug 30, 2009. 3:04 AM REPThat bit was a bit tricky, it was basically just stuck onto the inside of the visor with thick black tape, you could see out over the top of the array ok thougThe visor was 70% tinted black, which is as tinted as you can buy in the uk (not road-safe apparently..)
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DaftChazzsays: Jul 8, 2009. 12:49 AM REPEh hi, i'm that guy that send you a message through youtube, and i want to Know where did you buy all the things for making the LED display. And how imake it Works...

derektroywestsays: Jul 8, 2009. 1:27 AM REPWhere I bought all the things is Step 2. How to make the LED display work is Step 4. It's all there. Read the links off Step 4 (LEDControl and Max7221schematics) to see how to wire it up and how to change the code attached to Step4 (DaftPunkHelmets.zip).

DaftChazzsays: Jul 8, 2009. 1:02 AM REPOh sorry about the Zip File i've jumped that part XD

DaftChazzsays: Jul 8, 2009. 12:57 AM REPAnother thing, the files from that Zip Fila are the comands to configure the LED display? Sorry for my Bad English Thanks Again

DaftChazzsays: Jul 8, 2009. 12:52 AM REPIf you can send me a tutorial to my e-mail i 'll be very gladd my E-mail is: [email protected] Thanks

James Haskinsays: May 18, 2009. 5:42 PM REPThis is great. Good job. I think I'll do something similar someday.

magicpocketsays: May 10, 2009. 7:22 AM REPCOOL!

Viniciussays: May 1, 2009. 10:25 PM REPVery nice, i'll love to have one but i'm too lazy for doing one for me. The man of the video needs to learn how to dance... Thanks.

bounty1012says: Apr 17, 2009. 3:56 PM REPHehe this looks fun, Im gonna have to make one.

LinuxBoxsays: Apr 5, 2009. 12:30 AM REPOK, that's it! This is even greater than sliced bread. I'm going to get started on my own in blue, on Monday. Then, I'm going to wear it EVERYWHERE! (atnight only , otherwise it would be weird). Great job!

Splathesssays: Apr 1, 2009. 12:01 PM REPNice! For all who want El wirein the US try http://www.elbestbuy.com

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