4.HaloSync

HaloSync is wearable light for the dancefloor, a set of LED-lit braids that respond to the movement of the person wearing them. It comes out of the rave and live-event world, where light is part of how a crowd reads a body in motion.

Beyond its aesthetic qualities, HaloSync is a response to the disparity in access to immersive visuals within live music spaces. Large-scale electronic shows employ elaborate lighting rigs, while smaller artists and venues often lack the resources to create a similar atmosphere. HaloSync embeds within itself a vision where the audience contributes to the show with their movement and transforms the venue with their energy and presence which is especially meaningful at a local community event.

An Adafruit FLORA microcontroller reads motion from an onboard accelerometer and drives addressable LEDs woven through the braids, so gesture and tempo shape the light in real time. A state-machine tracks the type of movement the wearer is participating in (jumping, headbanging, moving side to side etc.) and outputs animations designed with these movements in mind.

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