I wanted to I have always been fond of crafting, but I always had difficulties when dealing with materials, so I wanted to take this opportunity to play around more with conductivity in materials as well as finding ways to work around them.

For this project, I created a series of necklace charms that also serve as tilt switches. Initially, I wanted the whole circuit to be integrated within the charms, but I couldn’t work around the circuit, so I decided to leave copper flaps on the backside of the charm so I can keep working on them for later projects.

The circuit itself is fairly simple, as the tilting relies mostly on either the dangling copper objects touching or the conductive threads touching.

I began by cutting out shapes and covering them with copper sheets. This process was actually hard as the copper sheets kept ripping off. I had to use a thick double sided tape to make the copper sheets stay in place. I also covered some beads with copper tape. Then I attached the conductive wire across the shapes and the beads.

Then I sew the tape onto a piece of felt and expanded the wire with copper tape and made flaps. I also covered the copper tape with a layer of tape so they wouldn’t overlap and short circuit.

Then I sew the two sides together and attached the charm caps.

If further expanded, these charms could be converted into earrings; and would work very well in rave parties, where movement and lighting add to the atmosphere.

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