project: see-thru-me
See-thru-me is a top that gives the illusion of light shining through the body. When a light source is shone on the back of the wearer, leds on the front of the garment light up.
photo: Mike Hambleton
That was quick - Peet has edited the video and set it to music. It looks awesome!
see it in action
progress: finished
Last weekend Peet, Jenneke, Magda and I went up to NSDM to make some videos of see-thru-me in action. I'll post the video here once it's edited, but meanwhile here are a couple of stills. More at Peet's Flickr stream.
progress: building
The top consists of 36 separate simple circuits, each with a light dependent resistor controlling the brightness of an led.
light sensors coiled and ready to sew
sewing the leds in place
sewing the ldrs in place
completed lining shell
battery packs
concept overview
Inspired in part by the idea of cartoon bullet holes letting light shine through the body, see-thru-me was originally intended to be made with a matrix of colour sensors and rgb-leds. The wearer would stand in front of a tv playing cartoons and the colours would be visible on the front of the garment. This turned out to be a hugely ambitious project, so the see-thru-me "economy version" was born.
