Robot Costume With LEDs

Step 6 Wiring the LEDs

You want to wire your circuit in parallel so that the LEDs are bright beacons of robotics. To do this, you want to wire all of your negatives together and all of your positives together. In other words, connect all of your negative LED legs with one color wire (black) and all of your positive LED legs with another color wire (red). You need to make sure that the red and black wires (when they are stripped) do not touch.

Measure the length (or estimate, if you are a risk-taker) between the two legs you want to wire and cut an appropriate length of the correct color wire. Strip the ends and then twist the leg and the end of the wire together.

Warning: Don't solder yet! Simply twisting will allow you to easily backtrack if there's a mistake somewhere. Plus, it makes soldering easier later since everything is tied tightly together.

The corners might be a little tricky because of the tight confines. With patience, though, you will be able to get all of the wires you need connected. You can connect them in any fashion as long as they are in parallel.

Try to make the wires and the connections flush with the surface. You'll be wearing this, so if anything is poking out, it will poke you.