Becky's Beginner Tips for DIY Wearable Tech
Becky's Beginner Tips for DIY Wearable Tech
Instructables Make It Wearable Engineering Student Contest: https://www.instructables.com/contest/makeitwearable2025/
Full guide featuring links to all things mentioned: https://www.instructables.com/Beginner-Tips-for-DIY-Wearable-Tech/
Becky Stern is a maker living in NYC, publishing DIY projects about technology, and crafts from her Brooklyn studio.
http://www.youtube.com/BeckyStern
previous video: https://youtu.be/CRdxB8WJUWU
this time last year: https://youtu.be/0pyuBE8FIP0
00:00 Intro
00:30 Getting Started
01:10 AUTODESK Instructables
02:30 Basics
04:58 Batteries
06:08 Strain Relief
06:46 Washing?
07:34 Diffusing LEDs
08:00 Document Work
08:36 Outro
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The hot glue and heat shrink tip at 6:28 is genius!
Dang I’m not highschool or College enrolled anymore haha. I’m old lol. Couldn’t even buy my first 3d printer without a 2 year loan
man, becky just doesn’t make bad videos. these are amazing tips!!
I love this woman. She’s such an inspiration and is one of the reasons I started pursuing m current degree in embedded electronics.
Becky “Buzzkill” Stern! Yeah that name /really/ fits when you show people how to make awesome blinged stuff like this 😀
I’ve been watching your channel for as long as I can remember and followed all of your work at Adafruit.
I’ve used your channel to inspire many people of all walks of life .
Thank you for sharing! Keep up the good work!
Great video!
Thank you for the great tips!
I got nearly all of those skills but never really thought of putting them together. Your video gave me some good ideas and tips. Thanks!
I love using heat shrink, and hot glue when I do a project ☺️
Becky is always amazing and informative.
Great video. But I would tweak one thing. at 5:25 you said all usb power banks are 5 volts. That is not the case. USB C power banks do USB C PD and that can be several different voltages based on the connected device. there are USB C PD sink controllers for diy projects that allow for voltages like 9volt up to 20 volts.
I love all the creative ways to diffuse LEDs! This is a video that I will definitely be referencing in the future
Hi! ❤ Thank you so much for this video! So useful, beautifully explained and very informative 🫶✨️🧠
it’s blowing my mind how like the last minute of this video looks like all one take, you are literally such a pro!!!!!
is their a wearable project that changes tv channels in restaurants and hotels
I made an amplitie many years ago, but like you mention it stopped working properly after a few years. I never figured out the problem, but I’m guessing oxidation made the conductive thread connections unreliable. I wonder if there’s a way to bring it back to life, apart from ordering new thread and redoing the whole thing?
Great video, Becky! So many great tips and resources—and I’m not even going to make wearable tech :^) But I am trying to improve my sowing and play around with electronics.
Becky youre so unbelievably cool. I started off hobby engineering, then started learning sewing, seeing you so competent in both is awesome and so inspiring
Today I wore my binary scarf that @BeckyStern made for me years ago. It’s not electronic but it is wearable and she did have to hack her knitting machine to make it.
excellent Becky, thank you so much, new to this so some learning to do
Hot glue on the wires blew my mind. Also such a fun video
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TV begone! I love it!