merlin / alex glowGonna go live in a min and dig through my recent, giant scale maille haul – I think a fair number of them are scuffed/scratched, so will be tallying those while sorting out the nicest ones for #Charmware jewelry & putting them in tackle boxes. Should be pretty chill :)
COMING SOON... the next generation of my #Charmware earrings! This one (liteMaille) is the prototype for the improved shape, and the MicroSD storage one (dataMaille) will be next. Sign up at https://charmware.tech to be notified when they're available ✨
Current stage: prototyping clip-on earrings and necklace pendants; refining the MicroSD maille art; waiting for parts!
(Do you like red or blue better? Or something else?)
// #PCB #LED #jewelry #chainmail #rose #IThinkThisIsABusinessNowAaaaa
Here's the more in-depth look at my hidden data earrings! Note: these use a circuit board that will be updated in a couple of weeks (see my next #Charmware post for a preview 👀).
Also, I've now created a website and newsletter! Getting closer to selling these.
🔗 https://charmware.tech to learn more (and join the mailing list for updates)
Paco HopeRE: https://chaos.social/@alexglow/116014646843186181
This is super cool. I don’t wear earrings this dangly, so I would need some other form factor. But this is awesome! I’d love to see more stuff like this. Or imagine a nitrokey incorporated into jewelry like this. This is the kind of stuff I am on the fediverse for!
What if you could save data to your earrings?
I've been working on this #Charmware MicroSD jewelry concept for a year+, and (as with the recent LED one), am SO EXCITED to finally pull together some semi-polished prototypes!!
This year, I intend to finally start selling my functional circuit board jewelry – including custom/branded options for these.
Site coming soon at https://charmware.tech 👀
Current info: https://www.notion.so/alexglow/dataCharm-2ae5bc4fe79880368b71f871e3fb6ef4
New vid! #PCBs I made in 2025, part 1: LED charm ✨
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTH1NuelDig
Finally pulled together a prototype with this little board – one of my new #Charmware set, reviving the series of modular tech #jewelry bits I started back in 2018. Been dreaming of assembling these with elytra and bike-leather, and the day finally came... The board still needs some tweaks (smaller switch etc.), but with my fixed-up #KiCad workflow, those will be a snap. 😸
I've been pretty quiet lately! Conference season pretty much wrapped up after the 16th, and I've continued the headlong #KiCad / #PCB design streak I started a couple months ago.
Since fixing my @kicad setup ~3 weeks ago, I've done...
- 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
Happy place. <3
Some preliminary doodles for the #Charmware #PCB art :) I'm planning to make a whole collection of these, so it doesn't hurt to have extra bits 'n' pieces of designs. I like where those planets on the left were going, actually...
Every stage of this process is so fun to look at!
Ehehehe!! Finally, my #KiCad process is rolling again... here's a tiny, ornate blinky – the first entry in my updated #Charmware series of #PCBs, begun in 2018: https://www.hackster.io/glowascii/charmware-modular-tech-jewelry-system-a237f5
I'm working out some small kinks in the upload process – but hoping to have a small batch of prototypes this weekend! ✨
(Left one is backwards bc I forgot to flip the KiCad screenshot before drawing on a ton of layers lol)
