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BedazzLED Jean Jacket

BedazzLED Jean Jacket

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• Make some 21st-century flower power — with powered flowers, with this LED jean jacket. The post BedazzLED Jean Jacket appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

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Now you’ll join the LEDs to the flower assemblies on the jacket exterior with the connecting wires, which pass through the holes to remain hidden in the interior. Glue dots or strips are a quick, low-mess method to attach the LED string to the mesh backing of each flower.

For clarity, we’ll refer to the individual LEDs in the string with indexes 1–27: LED 1 is closest to the JST connector, and LED 27 is the last LED on the string. So the three LED string segments contain LEDs 1–9, 10–18, and 19–27 respectively. Each segment illuminates one flower.

Place the entire LED string inside the jacket and push only LEDs 19–27 out to the exterior through the third flower’s hole. Place the flower near the hole, facedown with its mesh side up. Stick a glue dot to the mesh in the center disc. Stick t

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