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+Title: LED Dress
+Date: 2016-03-18
+Category: Projects
+Summary: A dress made out of LEDs that twinkle like stars
+
+A friend of mine was attending a stars and constellations themed ball. She
+wanted to wear a dress that was lit up with LEDs acting as twinkling stars.
+Seven of the 28 stars are aligned to resemble the Big Dipper constellation and
+twinkle differently than the rest, which twinkle in a random pattern.
+
+![a blue dress with a number of LEDs shining through the fabric]({static}/images/dress/dress1.jpg)
+
+## Construction
+
+The LEDs came from that strip that was cut up and soldered together with very
+small wires. Each of the LEDs can be controlled individually.
+
+![the controller circuit board on the left, and the soldered together LEDs on the right]({static}/images/dress/dress2.jpg)
+
+21 of the stars are light magenta in color and twinkle by fading randomly. The
+seven LEDs that form the Big Dipper continually scroll through a gradient of
+three colors. Instead of calculating the values of each color in the gradient as
+the program runs, a lookup table is used.
+
+<center>
+  <video autoplay muted loop>
+  <source src="{static}/videos/dress/dress3.mp4" type="video/mp4">
+  Your browser does not support the video tag.
+  </video> 
+</center>