Light Up the Night
We all have a story, a style, a unique identity. With Sprite Lights you can express yourself brightly and boldly by lighting up a room when you enter – literally. Show the world who you are through electronic body art.
A Maker Project
Sprite Lights is a maker project on a journey to become a tangible real world product.
Sprite Lights…
Are single-use body art that are lit up by tiny LEDS and powered by a body safe and super thin battery.
Up Next
After a successful small batch Kickstarter, Sprite Lights is currently exploring large-scale production.
The Journey
Guest Speaker at Supercon 8
Learn more about the maker journey of using 3D printed skins and molds, smelting Galinstan to create stretchable circuits, and other methodologies used to eventually create Sprite Lights.
Highlights and Awards
Hackster.io – Tech Fashion Design Challenge Winner
Sprite Lights won the “Out of the Box” award, a new category specifically created for Sprite Lights so that it could be a grand prize winner. The contest was sponsored by Hackster.io, Art By Physicist, ASCA, Make:, MakeFashion, and nLITEn Tech.
Kickstarter – Successfully Funded
Sprite Lights successfully funded and fulfilled a small batch Kickstarter that resulted in the production of over 350 Sprite Lights. This included working with manufacturers in in China to to produce the batteries and circuit boards with assembly.
Early Prototypes Displayed at CES
In 2021, and early prototype of Sprite Lights was one of three finalists for the Arrow and Indiegogo Challenge which resulted in Sprite Lights being both displayed and promoted at that year’s CES in Las Vegas, NV. Attendees could learn more about the finalists and vote for their favorites.
About the Creator
Learn more about Katherine Connell in the Hackster Cafe Chat hosted by Alex Glow
“Katherine shares her Sprite Lights wearable LED tattoos. These sci-fi adornments won her the “Out of the Box” prize in our TechFashion Design Challenge 2023. Katherine has also been prototyping an animatronic fox companion bot and sharing excellent tutorials on the subject. Join us for an exciting interview, hosted by Hackster’s Alex Glow.”
Other Media and Links
Tech Fashion Design Challenge Entry
Contact
You can contact Sprite Light’s creator, Katherine Connell at miss katherine connell at gmail dot com (no spaces when written like an email).