HowTo: Make Your Own Tron Costume With Electroluminescent Wire

Want to make your own sexy (or not) Tron costume like designer Syuzi's?

All you need is a black body suit and some electroluminescent wire. The bodysuit is easy, but as for the electroluminescent wire, you'll need Adafruit for that:

"EL Wire, also known as Electroluminescent wire, is a stiff wire core coated with phosphor and then covered with a protective PVC sheath. When an AC signal is applied to it, it glows an aqua (blue green) color. Sometimes its covered with a colored plastic shell to make it appear another color. It looks a little like thin neon. Very bendable, it keeps its shape and you can curl it around your finger. Its an easy way to add some glow to a project, not as bright as LEDs but uses a lot less power!"

Click through for the full tutorial.

You Will Need:

• Basic soldering skills & more technical know-how (with Adafruit guidance)
• Wire strippers with a 20 AWG or 18 AWG slot
• Wire cutters (these can be part of the wire strippers)
• Soldering iron
• Solder
• Third hand tool
• Copper tape
• Heat shrink in 1/4" and 1/8" diameter, 1:2 or 1:3
• Wire to solder the EL to
• Heat shrinker, Heat gun, hair dryer, lighter, you can also just use the edge of your soldering iron
• Utility knife, hobby knife (x-acto), box-cutter, razor blade, etc.

Note: You can buy most of these supplies an the Adafruit store: a starter pack for $20 OR if you want to skip the HowTo, you can buy the EL wire and invertor necessary for operation for a total of $13.50.

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