A simple EL panel conbadge I made while at FE2015 and wore to the night dance, after the furry arcade theme. Wasn't entirely sure if Zelda fit in as an "arcade" game at first but then the official con shirt was 100% Zelda so that was a clear sign it was good to go!

I originally wanted to make the the crest glow through the back of my fursuit like a glowing sigil, but the fur blurred the crest to being unrecognizable so I turned it into a conbadge. I'll need a far bigger EL panel with a lower-resolution design for patterns to be discernible through long pile fur I think. I have a large enough printer for that scale of design but panels that size run a few hundred so I'm not sure yet.

Made with A5 laminated cardstock into which I'd traced and cut out the logo, backed by a yellow EL panel driven by a 9v inverter. It all hung on my conbadge lanyard. The brightness of the yellow was controlled by a dial, at max brightness it was almost white. I have an actual white panel which I plan to use to make another conbadge with a gryphon head design on it for general dances.

If someone can figure out how to keep conbadges on a lanyard always facing the right way when bouncing around (without actually pinning/magnet-ing it to the suit) please tell me! It's kind of hard to make sure it's flipped the right way when I have zero downward vision!

During the dance this little girl ran over with her dad in tow while I was dancing, and she was so excited she was jumping up and down (not to the music) and pointing and pointing at my conbadge and screaming with happiness, like louder than the dance music, "oh my god, this is so awesome, Zelda fans EVERYWHERE!" I think I did something like pump my wings into the air and cheer for Zelda in response before the girl and dad ran back off the dance floor and I resumed my wing flailing dancing.

That was so gratifying, totally made spending all those hours rigging the thing up worth it :D

Hope to post pictures of me wearing it at the dance soon!