I'd recommend doing something like starting a journal entry on the topic so you can both put your ideas down in some semblance of order, and get feedback from people who know about things will turn out.
Nowadays you can buy conductive thread to connect electronics inside a garment, as well as LEDs small enough to be hardly noticeable.
The real issue would be wiring together and controlling that many RGB LEDs at once. For a smaller size and/or number, a grid can light one LED with its appropriate colour at a time, and cycle very rapidly through them all, doing it so fast they all appear on at the same time. For larger scales and numbers, it takes a bit more work.
To keep them safe from sweat, a layer of waterproof material behind them (not necessarily in front of them) should be enough to keep them safe. (for additional safety, it should be possible to encase each LED in a clear plastic or resin, with only the wires between exposed, which should be good enough waterproofing)
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Date: 2015-01-17 05:32 am (UTC)Nowadays you can buy conductive thread to connect electronics inside a garment, as well as LEDs small enough to be hardly noticeable.
The real issue would be wiring together and controlling that many RGB LEDs at once.
For a smaller size and/or number, a grid can light one LED with its appropriate colour at a time, and cycle very rapidly through them all, doing it so fast they all appear on at the same time.
For larger scales and numbers, it takes a bit more work.
To keep them safe from sweat, a layer of waterproof material behind them (not necessarily in front of them) should be enough to keep them safe.
(for additional safety, it should be possible to encase each LED in a clear plastic or resin, with only the wires between exposed, which should be good enough waterproofing)