I help you get started with LEDs - Cosplay Tutorial

[@CHEFPKR]

So happy for this video. Currently working on my Cyberpunk cosplay and want lots of LEDS

[@bbear3886]

who are u cosplaying? is there somewhere you share your Cosplays?

[@MarianneDAbis]

:> i do be watching this video thinking if i should buy it to make cyber punk glasses

[@aidanmcmurtrie1424]

Omg it's ChefPK in the wild

[@iisnuffles]

same! redoing my rebecca jacket 👍

[@BboyKeny]

Awesome! I'm curious how it's going

[@Wayne_Peters]

My soldering was equally crappy until I started using Flux. I highly recommend it. Dip either end of the connection in flux and then solder. It evaporates, drawing the solder in and creating a really neat and solid connection.

[@vaunkillion262]

Coming from infrastructure electronics manufacturing I can say that when in doubt add more flux, flux is the king of soldering greatness.

[@unitunitglue5143]

Thank you all including the tutorial. Very helpful.

[@DragonLawyer]

I watched like a dozen KZbin tutorials on how to solder and while they would use flux they never really explained what it did or how important it was. Two best tips I can give when learning to solder: apply flux generously and clean your soldering tip often

[@RussellTeapot]

Flux is love, Flux is life

[@yannixk.3294]

@@vaunkillion262 that is true when i'm doing my work (learning to be electronics technician )and when i'm having trouble replacing IC`s or such i always just get told to use more flux haha

[@Cheetahgirl_Studios]

Can I just say, I absolutely love your tutorials. Most other tutorials I’ve seen are overly formal and lack a sense of connectivity. But your sense of humour and personality make your videos a lot more enjoyable and easy to approach. Not to mention that you create tutorials for people of all skill levels. I’ve been looking to get into making costumes for a while now, and this channel has helped me a lot with where I should start and get me started. Cheers!

[@revenantcosplay]

I always remember which side of the led is positive with + is more and - is less so the positive leg is longer. I also recommend getting a silicone mat, possibly with trays, for soldering. It protects your work surface in case any rogue solder gets anywhere and you can set your parts on it and keep them in one place without losing them.

[@JosephAshcroft08]

That is soo useful thanks.

[@shannonprice4606]

Thanks to you my Predator costume is going to be amazing at SDCC this year!

[@KamuiCosplay]

Thanks so much for your support! Really appreciate it!

[@lxshwa]

This was the first actually simple LED noob tutorial I could actually follow. Thank you for exposing everything in such detail an also for showing exactly what you use. I’ve never done anything like that and this has been a big help

[@Galnyi]

A comment to 17:27 : This method will reduce the brightness of the LED if you use the 3V battery. That schematic will work with the 9V battery as long as the LEDs are ~3V. To make the 3V battery version work optimally you could simply parallel connect the LEDs insted (they are serial connected in the example). Also if you dont want to have to worry about changing/charging your batteries that often, could you parallel connect batteries together as well. Parallel connecting batteries will do nothing to the amount of voltage and such you will get on the circuit, it will just make it last longer (like the whole con day if you do your math). You can also get battery holders that already do that for you. Another thing is that it's more commonly/universal to add a switch/break on the red wire aka after the + part on the battery. But doing so on the black wire works fine too. Also electronics are usually made to handle a roughly 5-10% +/- or something in voltage (may say so in the specifications of the LEDs or such), because it's not always that easy to get exactly the voltage you desire. Cable lengts/thickness can throw that off so since the cable has resistance as well. Anyway, Buy Svetlana (and Benni's) books! Keep up the good work!

[@ElectrcRadiation]

As soon as I saw the schematic I was thinking the same thing xD this should be pinned for sure

[@peircedan]

Don't connect batteries in parallel. The terminal voltages vary potentially resulting in high circulating currents. At best this will shorten battery life and at worst could result in excessive heating.

[@rangerhawk]

@@peircedan Could also cause the battery to leak.

[@nheather]

Not true - they would not work at all, the LED needs a volt drop across it to work. That volt drop is the same for all levels of brightness it is the current that determines the brightness. So three blue LEDs in series need a battery of at least 9V and if more than 9V you will likely need a resistor to drop the extra voltage. As you point out when connecting a number of LEDs it is much better to connect them in parallel - in this way you could have three blue LEDs running off a 3V button cell - in fact she did that when she was holding them on the battery in the beginning. Another advantage of parallel over series is that if one LED were to fail only that one goes out - in a series circuit all would go out - think old fashioned Christmas Tree lights. Although you can get away without a resistor with suitable choice of better it is better to use them. Two reasons - you have control over the brightness because the resistor sets the current through the LED and you can drive different coloured LEDs off the same battery easily. For example, at the beginning she had two blue (3V) LEDs attached in parallel to a battery - they were working, but when she added the red (2V) LED it lit but the two blue LEDs went out. The reason for this is that the RED LED was forcing the circuit to be 2V, the residual 1V was being dropped across the battery's internal resistance (which isn't a good idea). Because the circuit was clamped at 2V there was not enough voltage to turn the blue LEDs on. But had she included a resistor on the red LED then all three LEDs would have lit.

[@dannydavis66]

Came here to comment this... Glad i read before i made a fool out of myself

[@raugust6786]

0:09 CORGI Edit: 22:34 - Two Corgis! Great video! I appreciate the simple breakdown on how to get started with LEDs. Many thanks.

[@JonMcPhalen]

Tip: You don't have to use the EXACT value from the resistor calculator -- using the next highest from a set of standard resistor values will work just fine. I always recommend these values to my friends just getting started in electronics (and I have two boxes designed for fishing lures that hold these values for me): 100, 220, 330, 470, 680, 1K, 2.2K, 3.3K, 4.7K, 10K Resistors are cheap insurance for your LED projects! Have fun -- like Svetlana does -- and your projects will be a hit! Buy Svetlana's books! :)

[@BboyKeny]

This is because in physics we approximate every thing like e = π = 3. This is very offensive to mathematician.

[@PeterNebelung]

Most people don't realise that even in the same rating, they vary as much as 10% higher or lower (Silver band). Best you can do is 5% with the gold band.

[@briancampbell179]

You may get lucky and be able to get away without a current limiting resistor, but if you don't want to rely on luck, use one. Also, don't try to connect LEDs in parallel and try to run it off a single resistor. If you try, you'll probably find one LED will light and the other wont.

[@kennmossman8701]

@@PeterNebelung you might be thinking of carbon comp resistors they are long obselte

[@PortalFPV]

Pre Tin everything you're going to solder. Will make things so much easier

[@brankin421]

Tin?

[@br-v388]

@@brankin421 Tinning is the act of melting solder onto something, so 'pre-tinning' means melting some onto both components you are trying to join so you only need to bring them together and apply heat. Can be hit or miss.

[@BluesAlmighty]

I was thinking the same and I am sure Mark covers that in the proposed KZbin tutorial 😉

[@lasermouth]

Wow! LEDs have always mystified me. You just dumbed it down for me perfectly. Thank you so much! Love your presentation as well. Very fun and encouraging.

[@minimaltrace]

Watching this video, while giving me 1 or 2 answers, have presented me with about 15 new questions and this seems to be literally the only channel on twitch or youtube that comes even close to a place where one might ask and actually get answers.

[@StevenNitsch]

I just started watching videos on LED installations for a project I'm planning, yours was the second one I've seen. Your way of breaking down a installation made it seem so simple. And you know sometimes the simple way is the best way. The project I'm planning is a wood carving of a painting that has neon lights on it. I plan to use Led lights hidden in the wood to light up the neon arrows in the painting. And also have blinking orange and yellow LEDS reflex off the wood wall to look like fire.

[@sarahdillman7069]

Thank you for not leaving anything out or hoarding your knowledge, this is so helpful.

[@shiroiokami5246]

Thank you so much, I just needed a tutorial to understand how LED works I was totally clueless before but I absolutely wanted to insert LED in my next cosplay

[@shazshanaa6425]

I have looked at so many videos on how to lights and end up confused by their use of overly tech talk to which they think is basic but I understood every word you said and now I want and cant wait to add lights to everything, I am so excited. thank you, thank you!

[@jiromuchizuki7892]

Thank you so much. I want to make a book nook with LED lighting and your advice and encouraging words make me feel like I can actually do it.

[@dougmulle2627]

I've played with LEDs pretty much the same way you did. I've watched a dozen videos of guys trying to explain all the technical mumbojumbo. None did it as well as you!! And none had the pretty smile or bubbly attitude either

[@Justrex01]

The perfect beginners intro to LED's. Thank you, guys! I can't wait to put some lights in my next cosplay!

[@KamuiCosplay]

Yes show us some pictures when you're doing it!

[@CreepyClayCave]

VIELEN DANK! Endlich jemand, der dieses LED -Thema anschaulich erklärt.

[@arthurlodbrock2549]

The cutest introduction to LEDs and soldering. Thank you for video!

[@carlpowers7291]

I really love watching your tutorials. You are always so positive and happy and very smart. I have some of your books and templates. Thank you for doing this.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

I think understanding Ohm's Law is a great tool to understanding the relationships between volts, amps and resistance, which will tell you instantly what size battery and resistor to use for any number of led's. All you need to know is the volt requirement or forward voltage of your particular led and use fresh batteries. You could light the poor little single led for a week, instead of letting the smoke out, with just one resistor. It's also good to know how many amps the led really really wants, cuz it's not the volts that kill you, it's smoking! You have great videos with clear, easy to follow steps and an awesome attitude!

[@traviss3913]

LMAO at the tip cleaning. This video was perfect, thank you for giving me the confidence to build better stuff.

[@K3ns4i]

I really needed this video, not for cosplay but for gundam and scale modelling :D . Thank you very much!

[@annamariajung]

FInally, a tutorial for my absolut beginner level! I love it, thank you so much

[@julietberry5578]

Many, many thanks ! Exactly what I wanted to see as a beginner. Really appreciate your encouragement and clear instructions.

[@ionostro]

Your super fun and cheerful video, thank you. I made my first "mini costume" with LEDs back in 1985, with a tiny red LED, I took it from an old Walkman ... I glued the LED with a tape on my forehead, I hid it behind my hair, using that thin wire of enameled copper that comes in electrical transformers, that thin, spirally wound wire was easy to hide under my hair, around my head, over my ear and down the back of my neck to my shoulder, and into my arm was the pack of two AA batteries, and the cables reached my hand, where I had two metal plates tied with a rubber band to my thumb and forefinger ... so I could turn the light on and off ... when we went out at night, when partying with my friends, I used to make a small blink with the LED ... and people were confused, not knowing if what they had seen was real, they usually asked me and I said "I don't understand about What are you talking?!"

[@KamuiCosplay]

Ha ha ha, that's a really cool story! Thanks for sharing it! I'm hope you still enjoy crafting and electronics! :)

[@LadyJazalea]

12:15 "You can clean it up a little bit afterwards, because it looks like CRAP!" 😂 You crack me up!

[@skyrider4789]

Thank you for this video (and so much of what you do). I love your & Benni's energy. Fun & informative. A treasure for the community world-wide! ❤from So. Cal!

[@devilmecare]

I keep lots of old electronics for parts. You have motivated me to start being creative. I soldered airplane electronics for a living.

[@AlyssaJartsev]

Thank you for this tutorial! I never was interested in LED before, but this tutorial actually wants me to try it myself

[@mururoa7024]

I'm not at all into cosplay (I had to google what it was) but this LED tutorial was actually really helpful and I actually understood everything! Thank you so much!

[@saxofunk]

Use flux core solder and tin your parts before joining them to help them join more easily. I use 63/37 or 60/40 lead/tin solder. Even though it has lead, the temps required are much lower than lead-free, which also helps you make better solder joints.

[@sansakka]

thanks a lot for this video, even for someone like me who never did electronics it sound really clear and I'm now hardly waiting to try it by myself

[@Amanda-if7ey]

I've watched a lot of videos about using LEDs and this was one of the best at making it simple and easy to understand. Great work!

[@KamuiCosplay]

Glad it helped!

[@seven6pro]

Excellent video. As a electronic non-savvy girl, you made led connections very easy to understand. Thank you!

[@senkumeow5095]

Holy good,this was so good and encouraging,I was really scared to get into electronics but this really made me overcome my fears,thank you for making a great video

[@WvIENS]

this, this is what iv searched weeks for!! thank you , you have made my lighting boss

[@mikajansson1243]

Your videos are a MASSIVE inspiration!! And - not for Cosplay, but for Halloween decorations!!! Amazing ideas, materials, designs, creativity - THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing!!!!! Surprisingly few people use foam and foam clay in the world of Halloween decor, but I think you could create the most stunning, movie-set quality stuff (think Gargoyles with light and smoke, Gothic doorways with skulls, lights, etc - and a million other wonderful things!). Halloween is getting bigger in some parts of Europe, and hey - costumes & Halloween are best pals :-) Remember Halloween is not just "American commercial nonsense" - the roots of Halloween are in Samhain, which was the festval of dead for ancient European Celtic people. And for example in Finland we have "Kekri" - similar day of the dead in October, with costumers and fires to drive away bad evil spirits...So lets make Halloween into "Euroween" and OWN IT. :-) Bless!!!

[@TheTruthHz]

I 100% recommend tinning the wires and components first. This means adding a little solder to the wire BEFORE you make the final connection to the component terminal. This has the benefit of preventing the individual strands from fraying and gives a greater chance of ensuring you don't get a cold joint that will break easily

[@scifi_dragon]

Great video. I'm sure a lot of novice model builders will find it very useful. I've been installing LED lighting effects in model spaceships and ray-guns, phasers, and such for years - I wish this video had been around when I first started, it would've made things so much easier. Thanks for putting in the time to make this video. BTW, great cosplay outfits!

[@jesspaterik]

I’m just starting out with model making and this was incredible!! So thankful for strangers on the internet who have figured this stuff out and are generous with sharing their knowledge 👏🏻♥️

[@TempestStrife]

This was just enough to help me get started on adding led into my doll. Thank you.

[@VoiceMyDreams]

EXTREMELY helpful, excited and confident to try it myself!

[@kllstkllst5831]

I love everything about this tutorial. It’s all so helpful. Thanks for also including the links to everything you use in the description.

[@jamesmurphy1095]

Love the channel! Just a tip for you. If you are going to use a lighter to shrink the heat shrink, don't use the tip of the flame. That is what will burn and scar the wire. Use the center of the flame where it is blue. Works best!

[@rilgibson299]

Most helpful tutorial online, you are a lifesaver! Can’t wait to level up my Hatsune Miku cosplay with these :3

[@shinythingster]

Thank you so much for this video! I am getting into making dollhouses & dioramas and lighting is so important, but I have been so intimidated by electronics! Thank you for making the basics so easy to understand!

[@gregorcykf]

Followed you forever on insta. So looks like LED's, Fabric, and Foam are the items you can never have enough of

[@raywhatsthisfor1283]

So many different applications for these little balls of light!!! Costumes and weapons for things I cant even remember!!! You guys could make some of the coolest costume additions for little kids Costumes!!!!

[@nicolewolcott]

I am just so glad I found you, not only are your cosplays amazing, but your explanations for the LED's vs resistors are awesome too. I'll use your advice with my Fallout 3 pip boy model I'm printing!

[@lawrenade]

Having no idea about electronics, I’m sooo happy to come across this. Always inspiring, thank you Benni and Svetlana ❤️

[@Bob-ip4mx]

Excellent video, got me wanting to get back into creating props again, simply explained, love it

[@joyflg1rl]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. You're really demystified the process. I am grateful.

[@mmustangg2]

Loved this video. I appreciate that you slowed the pace and weren't as over the top. Very well done!

[@KamuiCosplay]

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/kamuicosplay12201 Thanks again to Skillshare for sponsoring this video!

[@perttisalminen6357]

I love your way to keep things simple.

[@froginhotwater4806]

What a great video. Your hands are lovely and they make amazing things. Thank you.

[@MarquisdeL3]

These videos are super helpful because they keep reassuring me that I can do LEDs if I want to, even though I find electronics super intimidating. Thank you so much.

[@livewire4495]

Svetlana, Love your Content! Your production is seamless. 😎

[@seme]

Fantastic entry video to the LED world. Thank you so much for providing all these high quality video contents! :)

[@KamuiCosplay]

Our pleasure! Glad you like them!

[@MorleyRobertson1975]

Hi, you ran your LEDs in series which is why you have to increase your voltage. You can wire as many as you like in parallel and still use a 3VDC source, provided the source can provide enough current. You also eliminate issue of one LED burning out and opening the circuit, resulting in all of them going out

[@kennmossman8701]

OMG LEDs have a life of 30,000 hours so a burn out is very unlikely Parallel conusmes much more current.......buy batteries by the pallet !

[@sariri-d6u]

i love everything about this video! love listening to you and you explain this perfectly!

[@pefp2008]

A common practice i've seen with soldering irons is to put the melt the solder on the cable, join both extremes and then with the soldering iron melt the solder again and join the cables very clean and neatly

[@arlove94]

This is the first time i see you and you have no idea how much I like you already keep it up

[@craigmurrayauthor]

Your video is fantastic. For beginners, just a quick idea. LED.s, if you use a red sharpie and make a dot at the top of the positive lead, then even if you cut the lead you can still tell. On that note lol, trim the leads so you can limit the amount of exposed 'wire'. Her example is great but if the leads get crushed together, and they are exposed like that, they could short out and stop working. Soldering becomes a lot easier if you use flux. It's a greasy paste you wipe on where you want the solder to go.

[@AstrocyteCosplay]

Thankyou! So helpful and basic for those that haven't even touched on LEDs get. Have the book but it's great seeing video of the actual process as well. Can't wait to start doing some LEDs in my cosplays.

[@ckraut1771]

Thank you so much for this vid! It's gonna help me sort out everything for my LED set up in my 3d scepter print for my lady loki

[@nataliewicklund3421]

Just amazing! I started following you on tiktok last year for your props and cosplays. Now suddenly I needed to build something and I immediately turned to your youtube page because I knew you'd have all my answers! Thank you~

[@Cheeky_Chelsea]

seeing your solder joints working even though they're not *technically* that good is really inspiring

[@krzysztofmathews738]

This is an excellent demonstration. Very clear and well presented. Thank you!

[@CrankyPantss]

Well done. This basic tutorial was a great overview to get people started, just as it was intended to do. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@johnnysideasofthings3809]

I love you, you save my life with this projects. Yiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeiiiiiiii!!!!!!

[@TheJRhyder]

I've been meaning to finish my 3d printed Buster Sword and this will be great for the materia.

[@blackcat49345]

This the content I must have to know and learn

[@chrislambert238]

Buy the 2 books on lighting. Well worth it and cosplay or not a great resource

[@thearchetype9829]

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[@phillipchronister7035]

Great video! I build a lot of models and have been hesitant to include LEDs in them. This really helped a lot, thank you!!!

[@DnD_Adventures6966]

You're such a geek and I love that! Thank you for the video.

[@lasarith2]

0.14mm is 35 AWG (American wire gauge) (Other have said to use the heat shirking tube on the helping hands so it doesn’t put teeth marks into the wire/cover.

[@johngarnicajr64]

What a great tutorial. I’m ready to add some lights to my Halloween animatronics now. Thank you.

[@Zoomzoomvenus]

Ive been following you for the longest!! Im finally have the courage to start this! I love love your costume ❤ 💕

[@danielmakerofrings2494]

Thank you so much now I'm going to use led's in everything!!!

[@davidesbardellotto6909]

Corgi, Corgi, Corgi i love all you! you are a great source of inspiration 💜💜💜

[@brendando9357]

LEDs have always been super intimidating for me. Ive tried many times to look for the most dumbest of the dumb tutorials for my smol brain but never could so I gave up in the end. Thank you for this (:

[@KamuiCosplay]

Hope it helps! xD

[@mdlovejoy]

Hey! Thank you for posting this! You just walked me through a project I was thinking of start and made it sound way easier than I thought it would be. Thank you!!

[@suzeshore]

Thanks for this really clear breakdown!! I'm planning on trying out LEDs for the first time and after this video it feels exciting instead of scary :)

[@jonathonhazelton2060]

LED stands for “Light Emitting Diode” “Light Emitting” is very straight forward, this “diode” emits light. As for what a “diode” is, it is a simple semiconductor, with 2 different electrodes, an anode and a cathode (“di” “ode”, “cath” “ode”, “an” “ode”, “electro” “ode” ,you can see the pattern). Semi-conductors are materials that aren’t an insulator, or a conductor, kind of halfway conductive. Our common semiconductors used Silicon Crystals. What the impurities (called doping) are in the silicon crystals change the electrical properties of the semiconductors. Semiconductors are pretty boring as a single crystal, it’s basically a resistor/conductor, it’s when you layer these crystals that magic happens. Diodes act as a one way gate, electrons only flow one way through them. This is why LED turn on in only one direction. The light emitting properties of the LED is caused by the special doping that was used.

[@wondernore]

Thank you so very much for making these videos, you're informative and humble as well as friendly and entertaining. Much appreciated🌟🍻

[@renesalinas9491]

Bei Niedervolt habe ich gute Erfahrungen mit Stoßverbindern aka Wärmeschrupf gemacht. Super um Litze wasserdicht zu verbinden. Reinstecken, Heißluftföhn und fertig. Schrupfschlauch und Zin in einem.

[@polia1694]

It's easier to solder if you pre-apply solder to each end before joining them. Also, flux helps with solder adhesion.

[@zaranea7920]

The first tutorial I ever watched was your worbla breastplate Tut xD now almost a decade later I still tend to watch your stuff because you are just a natural to simplify seemingly scary and complex things x3 thanks again. Many years later

[@Vanillepferdchen]

This is such a helpful tutorial! Amazing and easily understandable. I just need to find a matching cosplay to use this knowledge. Also, gotta love all those special effects!

[@Michael_Moon4242]

Very nice! For improving your soldering skills, you should use soldering paste. It will make the flow of the tin much smoother. Also when soldering, do not hold the the iron first to the tin but instead heat up first the wire and the soldering joint properly, then let the tin flow over it.

[@papayork1907]

you are very helpful and fun to watch, great energy

[@aiman156]

For those who like to scavenge parts from broken electronic items, the LEDs you pick out might have their legs shortened. In that case a way to know the poles is to look inside the bulb. The negative pole is usually the part that looks like a flag. Remember, the only positive flag is the Swiss flag.

[@troycasten6742]

Legend.

[@kennmossman8701]

NOTE LEDs can be damaged by excessive soldering. The soldering/de-soldering would be done 3 times. Clip an alligator clip on the lead between the LED bulb and solder joint helps.

[@milquest]

Thanks so much for this vid, it makes things so much easier for me to wrap my head around. Now I want to start experimenting :)

[@pictureeyecandy]

An easy and fun way to learn LEDs. Thanks

[@sewlittlemouse6365]

just bought the book yesterday. Can't wait for it to show up.

[@KamuiCosplay]

Hope it arrives soon! :)

[@FlyingVGoddess]

OMG! Thank you! I’m working on an Aloy cosplay and have a single LED light to add to her Focus (I’ve never worked with electronic components for cosplay). I figured how to light up an LED with a coin battery, but not how to switch it on and off and was almost going to MacGyver it by using the housing and switch of an lighted ear wax cleaner. This looks much easier!

[@shaunramkissoon2]

Cosplay has come along so far! It would be so cool if SOUND was incorporated into props!

[@KamuiCosplay]

My latest prop (Bolvar's hammer) actually has sound. :)

[@jameswebb8162]

Loved the video!! Have a Merry Christmas!! Stay safe and healthy!!