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 🙂

Check out more pictures on our Facebook page here.

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