Transform Bubble Wrap into LED Fabric #WearableWednesday
We all love popping bubbles, but that sort of fun is short-lived. Who hasn’t gone from a bunch of bubbles to pop to landfill. Maker CMoz has another way: transform bubble wrap into LED fabric! Here’s more from Instructables:
Other than popping the bubbles, which is always fun, I try to save bubble wrap when I get it in packages and reuse it to send on packages. There is still always a pile of it left (is it growing?!). With this Instructable you’ll see how we can repurpose bubble wrap and make it into a fabricthat we can use to make other things!
…Also, because I’m a self-confessed geek, I’ve had to add bling to it – so I’ve embedded a string of RGB color LEDs (NeoPixels) inside the bubble wrap – this is our bling factor!
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