Animated Necklace with LED
With the maker faire this month I decided to make some bling to bring. Having made 80 of these necklaces in august that I brought with me to burning man this year, the process is now super refined and easy. The cost to make one of these is very cheap, bordering on about 1.50 each. But the coolness factor is off the charts. At burning man I had a box of several colors of LED’s as well as some color fading ones. The color fading ones were by far the most popular. Anyway here is the how to… The Acrylic: For this project we will be using 2 thicknesses of acrylic. A .220 – .250 and a .120 – .125 thickness. Acrylic is ideal for this project over lexan for instance due to how it plays with the light from the LED’s. The LED’s: For this project you will need one 5mm led of your color. As stated before the color fading ones are very cool, UV will have a very short run time, 8-16 hours and red leds the longest run time. Screw : The screws you will want for this project are about .120 and .450 lon...