
CLASS AT OTAKON // Intro to LEDs, Breadboarding, & Raspberry Pi
Location - Otakon 2025 FRIDAY SESSION: Walter E. Washington Room 144C - Crafts Room SATURDAY SESSION: Walter E. Washington Room 144B - Workshop Room Class Length: 1.5 hours Ready to level up your props with customized LEDs? Students in this class will learn the basics of electronics prototyping (breadboarding) and circuit design, leveraging a Raspberry Pi with prewritten code to make a set of LEDs blink on and off. This course will also cover how to implement on/off switches, and discuss how to translate breadboarded circuitry to your final props & costumes. In this workshop you'll learn: How to prototype electronics (breadboarding) The basics of circuit design How to use a Raspberry Pi to create blinking patterns in LEDs How to translate circuitry into costumes and props Prerequisite Skills: None - Beginner Friendly About the Instructor: StarsOfCassiopeia (she/her) has been crafting award-winning mixed media cosplays since 2007. Cass graduated from Harvard with a degree in