For my Lightning Talk on the 4th of December on the online micro:bit LIVE event I did a small talk about “how to make wearables”.
Look in your closed if you have any clothes you want to pimp. Your Christmas sweater, a skirt, hat, tie anything is possible. But you can never wash them, so it is only for fun.
The 10 tips:
- use hacked Christmas lights
- use LED light but round the leg so the wire has more connection or special small LED’s for making wearables
- use for the ground a snap button (or iron ring)
- use a battery pack for coin or a power bank of a mi-power for the micro:bit
- make a drawing how your circuits will be
- Conductive thread and use it double, don’t make long wires it will mix up. Make it in small parts and test the whole time.
- use crocodile cables to test your project the whole time
- use only the clips to so you can use your micro:bit for an other project
- make sure the wires from the different circuits don’t touch each other
- make a simple code and have fun!
Links to my dutch blog how to make my wearbles:
This is the talk a gave in december 2021.