Dragon jacket - 2024

The Dragon is a project I made for my wife in 2024. It uses EL wire for the dragon body and LED filaments for the eye and ice breath animations.

The dragon uses the exact same hardware as my Heart and Lungs v4 (2024) project. It's built using an Arduino IoT controller, my custom board for switching EL wire and LEDs, and a custom 3D box to contain the electronics. Most of the actual EL wire stays on all the time. Only the jaw segments turn on and off to reflect the dragon opening its mouth. Three blue LED filaments are wrapped around each other to create the pulsed breath effect.