LED Art
Individually-addressable RGB LED shoulder patches, built around David Shorey's (ShoreyDesigns) Dragon Scales print-on-fabric technique. Each patch is a sheet of scales printed directly onto mesh, shingled over a printed tray that holds a chain of WS2812B-style ("NeoPixel") LEDs, so every scale (or column of scales) can be lit its own color.
Individually-addressable RGB LED shoulder patches, built around David Shorey's (ShoreyDesigns) Dragon Scales print-on-fabric technique. Each patch is a sheet of scales printed directly onto mesh, shingled over a printed tray that holds a chain of WS2812B-style ("NeoPixel") LEDs, so every scale (or column of scales) can be lit its own color.
BOM:
- **`Dragon_Scales_Patch-Base.stl`** — a flat ~88 x 185 x 3mm tray with a
raised lip. Two small addressable-LED matrix boards sit inside it,
recessed enough that the scale sheet can lie flush on top.
- **`Dragon_Scales_Patch-Scales.stl`** — a ~94 x 203 x 20mm sheet of
overlapping scale shells. It is *not* glued on after printing — it's
printed straight onto a piece of mesh/tulle fabric using Shorey's
pause-and-embed technique (see below), so the whole scale sheet comes off
the printer as one flexible, fabric-backed piece.
- Light from the LED matrix underneath diffuses through the translucent
scales, and because the LEDs are individually addressable you get the
color-gradient/rainbow-chevron look shown above rather than a single flat glow.
