Gonna go live in a min and dig through my recent scale maille haul – I think a decent % are scuffed/scratched, so I'll be tallying them, sorting out the nicest ones for #Charmware jewelry, & putting them in tackle boxes. Should be chill :)
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An in-depth look at my hidden data earrings! This circuit board will be updated in a couple of weeks (see my next #Charmware post for a preview 👀).
Also, there's now a website and newsletter! Getting closer to selling these.
🔗 Info & mailing list: charmware.tech
// #privacy #security #chainmail
Want to save data to your earrings?
I've been working on this #Charmware MicroSD #jewelry concept for over a year, and (as with the recent LED one), am SO EXCITED to finally pull together some semi-polished prototypes!
Site coming soon at charmware.tech 👀
// #WearableTech #chainmail #privacy
Alex holds up an earring made with a little black-and-gold board, a hidden blue LED, jewel beetle wing casings (elytra), and upcycled bike inner-tube rubber (which I call "bike leather").
Wearing the earring: the blue LED sheds its light on my cheek and palm.
New vid! #PCBs I made in 2025, pt. 1: LED charm ✨
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Been dreaming of prototyping with these new #Charmware (modular tech #jewelry) bits, plus elytra & bike-leather... and scraping together the braincells to publish.
Eat it, burnout! :D
// #Maker #WearableTech #LEDs
A KiCad screenshot: an Ouija-esque planchette shape, with hand-drawn stylized nasturtiums and "ESP-01" on the front, plus its programming circuit with Program & Reset buttons, a 6-pin FTDI header, and an 8-pin header for the ESP module.
One of the Darkness gems from Hades, redrawn as a potential PCB design: white (silver HASL coating), black (silkscreen), purple (solder mask), and darker purple (copper under solder mask).
Fixed my @kicad.org setup ~3 weeks ago; since then:
- 2 new #Charmware designs (will post tests soon!)
- Upgraded my #ESP8266 programmer planchette! (ordered yesterday)
- New modified Joule Thief board for the holidays! (ordered tonight)
...And various other things, like this #Hades gem concept :D
