Share Your Product
I made a pin with a decoration of a blue house because my brother likes blue. I was trying to give it to him as a Christmas present. I made another design of a bookmark and a pin, but I thought those designs were very complicated, so I decided not to make them. One had some overlapping conductive threads that were opposite (one was anode, and one was cathode). I changed the layout of the tie-offs from the design because it caused a cathode tie-off to overlap with an anode string, which caused a short circuit. I also changed the design part of the plan to have a thin layer of felt over the original sewing, because the felt that I sewed the electronic components on was too unorganized, so I had an overlapping piece of thin felt to make it look more appealing and organized. I think that worked out very well, because that made the final product more calming for us to see and it looks like a more modern finish.
Share Your Learning
Something new to me during the project is the importance of not overlapping the strings. If one string was anode and one cathode, they would cause a short circuit, causing the battery to drain insanely fast and overheat. One thing that was hard for me was the conductive thread tangling all over each other, and I fixed that problem by sewing more slowly and surely, and I also tried to untangle the strings whenever they got tangled. I would tell the next semester’s students to make a simple design that shows the location and direction of the tie-ons and tie-offs. This can surprisingly cause a short circuit very easily, and I personally had a little (big) trouble with short circuits. I would like to learn some more about making more appealing designs, because I think my current designs are overly simple and unappealing.
Finished this on the last day of the year 