Glowing Necklace
Apr. 27th, 2014 10:19 pmI made a glowing necklace by attempting to follow instructions in Diana Eng's Fashion Geek book:

It is made from three LEDs and a light dependent resistor, which I soldered together, and they are connected to a battery with conductive thread. So that the LEDs don't look really really bright, the light dependent resistor causes the LEDs to get dimmer when light levels are dimmer.
My necklace doesn't look quite like the picture in the book: Picture and instructions on Etsy, and a PDF with instructions from Fashion Geek.
Before I added thread around it to make it softer:

( Notes about some of the things I had difficulty with )

It is made from three LEDs and a light dependent resistor, which I soldered together, and they are connected to a battery with conductive thread. So that the LEDs don't look really really bright, the light dependent resistor causes the LEDs to get dimmer when light levels are dimmer.
My necklace doesn't look quite like the picture in the book: Picture and instructions on Etsy, and a PDF with instructions from Fashion Geek.
Before I added thread around it to make it softer:

( Notes about some of the things I had difficulty with )