Add #Electronics to a #Halloween Costume and Win a Prize from SparkFun #geekgirl
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Halloween is coming up fast and people are looking for new ways to make their costume shine! SparkFun Electronics wants to help make people’s costumes really shine this year by encouraging them to incorporate e-textiles or wearable electronics into their costumes. The company is celebrating Halloween by hosting its first ever costume contest. The company will reward three lucky entrants with SparkFun credit for demonstrating the most innovative use of electronics in their Halloween costumes.
Furthermore, the company’s TechStyle Specialist Dia Campbell has written a new tutorial (http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/396) just in time for Halloween, which details how to incorporate LEDs and simple circuits to add electronic effects to a costume. Skeptical about incorporating LEDs, sounds or animated effects into a costume this year? Don’t be — e-textiles is an up-and-coming area of the embedded electronics world that invites people from all technical backgrounds (from true beginner to expert engineer) to fuse clothing, fabric or other materials with electronic bits and pieces. If you know how to sew, that’s all you need to glow!
The rules of the contest are pretty simple. Participants should submit a photo or video of their costume in action, along with a brief explanation of what it is and how it works to (marketing@sparkfun.com) with the words “Halloween Costume Contest” as the subject line. Entries must be received by October 31, 2012 to be considered. Each costume must contain electronic components (the more, the better) and they don’t have to be SparkFun parts. The winners will be chosen by a panel of SparkFun employees based on creativity and engineering execution.
The first place winner will receive $200 in SparkFun bucks, second place will receive $100 in SparkFun bucks and third place will receive $50 in SparkFun bucks. Winners will be announced Wednesday, November 7, 2012.
For more e-textiles ideas and techniques, check out the rest of the tutorials from Dia and SparkFun at (http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/category/16).
May the best costume win!