Just found my ultimate project for Arduino...
https://youtube.com/watch/...

Have to make this untill x-mas and take it to the company x-mas dinner

Will the arduino be enough to control all that?

good luck driving all that with an arduino

Arduino is SLOW. It might be fast enough but it depends on the pattern. I recomend rasberry pi zero. It propably has right lib for that already. Dont worry about the cost of controler! Cost of the LEDs will be tremendous :p If all of them are 1W ones... Imagine the amount of power and heat they will require/generate :p

I wonder if you're willing to spend $1000+ on this project. i've done a similar project just for fun and also as a gear for a music festival (Electric Castle in Romania) and in the end I settled for a matrix of 32x28 normal-white smd leds driven by arduino nano/shift registers/sd card (to store the animations)/bluetooth module (to control it from the phone) and all of this to keep costs as low as possible, i think it was like 30-40€ in the end and a lot of time invested especially in the coding part. all of this ran for about 5-6hours on a single shitty portable battery.

the problems I've encounter were: the LEDs were almost always too bright (like in the video) so i had to implement a dimming system, basically was making everyone watching turn the head around 😅 and also the maintenance of it was a became bit of pain in the a** because a lot of people came asking from where i got it and touching it (they were like moths to the light, not kidding!)

A group of students at my former school made something similar (headpiece, gloves and a chest piece). They used arduino(s) and the LEDs reacted to sound. It looked freaking awesome.

Well... I'm a noob in Arduino but already know its possibilities.

Whoever said 1W led strips, yes, that is the solution. (programable)

Plus led controlers, there are several solutions for control.

I saw a Tutorial on how to use (don't know what it was? Spent last two weeks watching Arduino stuff, It's getting all fused up) Exponential grow led matrix... Each 8 Leds have a controller, then one controller controls 8 controlers, and so on, and so on... So there is a lots of ways...

Finally... If I do this with expensive Led tape... Yes 1000+ € Its just the start...

Chinese programable ones cost up to 10% (that's from 1000€ to 100€) The Visor It's a work visor, for the vest I already have 3 Airsoft vests that I can use, and gloves...

Plus, not all the LEDs need to be dynamic... I can do a wireframe of my body with a strip and make a led matrix on the front, a led bar on the back, visor, wrist controller (to change padrons)...

Btw, a chinese arduino nano costs 2€, 50m RGB led strip 20€..

@Gregozor2121 If needed be yes... Nested Arduino Micros to divide the load or a RaspPi

And people.... You'r all forgetting the most important part...

It doesn't really matter if it works in the end (I hope it does), the Important is to learn how to do it.

There aren't much good intermediate projects for Arduino, only basic ones... Light a ned, use a potencimeter, blabla, and advanced ones. Practive is the best way to learn.

@KittyMeowstika That's actualy my project for today :p :p

Yesterday Did a led bar and a RGB led decoration ball

Today I'm doing it with sound detection (to learn)

@JoshBent @ilikeglue

https://youtube.com/watch/...

No Arduino, 1 Mosted + 1 sound sensor, 1 strip single color