Want to create glowing orbs, gemstones or other cool effects? It’s easier than you think! On 48 pages and over 170 pictures you’ll get easy step-by-step guides and detailed explanations about: understanding electricity and LEDs, serial and parallel circuits, calculating resistors and battery life, learning to solder, molding and casting LED gemstones, lighting up plexiglas and acrylic spheres and of course a lot of detailed pictures, tips and examples of my own finished costumes!

By ordering ‘The Book of Cosplay Lights – Getting Started with LEDs‘ you’ll get easy step-by-step guides, tutorials and explanations for the following points:

• Introduction to LEDs
• Understanding electricity
• Calculating resistors
• Serial and parallel connections
• Calculating battery lifespan
• Required tools and materials
• Troubleshooting
• Molding and casting resin gemstones with LEDs
• Building glowing acrylic spheres
• Lighting up Plexiglas
• no need to calculate anything – just pick a pre-arranged circuit and start soldering!

As well as the following work examples:

• Dani Moonstar – Marvel
• Druid T9 – World of Warcraft
• Protoss Wizard – Blizzard Crossover