Glowing Chucks at Make-a-tion
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s neither. But everyone that attended our Glowing Chuck Taylors workshop (as part of our Summer Make-a-tion series) certainly gained the power of being awesome!
Thanks to AdaFruit‘s excellent tutorial, we too were “light” on our feet by cutting out an EL Panel:
adding an inverter for some much needed power (supplied by a simple coin cell battery):
and sewing it to our shoe of choice (in this case, a Chuck Taylor All-Stars):
Check out the finished product. I dare you to say that doesn’t look cool.
In fact, this workshop was so easy, we had time to pull apart some old wind-up toys and make these little guys:
What does it do, you ask? Stop by the space and find out 🙂
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