Costume built by Alliance Studio for Wes Borland. LED driver and animation controls using the Parallax Propeller.
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This costume, built for -- and in consultation with -- Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit by Alliance Studio. Was showcased at the Riot Games 2013 World Championship. Controls use a Parallax Propeller with my WS2801 LED driver. The animation uses two copies of the LED driver to handle separate strings, and the mainline code ties everything together to do the animations. A button on the back of the helmet allows Wes to switch animations as desired. This costume can be seen on Limp Bizkit's current tour.
The main controller board is an off-the-shelf Parallax Quickstart board. I designed and built a custom shield that provided a power supply for the project and driver outputs (TC4427) for the LED strings. Though we didn't use it, the board also holds a microSD socket to allow show data to be stored.
My WS2801 driver is written in Propeller Assembly (PASM). The main animation program is written in Spin (the native, high-level language of the Propeller).
Jon McPhalen
I was wondering if it's possible to make it using a NodeMCU, giving the quantity of LEDs. I know this Project it's 2 years algo, but I'll appreciate some guidance of it's possible