I pulled apart a motor to harvest magnet wire.     Then wound it on a sewing machine bobbin.    

  Slinky     Guitar Strings     Magnet Wire    

  Crochet yarn around 18 gauge aluminum wire, wind it into a coil, and using the same yarn stitch the coil together.      

  Repurposing guitar wire to fabricate a speaker coil.    

  Copper wire covered with crochet, French ribbon, and guitar strings.      

  I purchased a package of DMC Memory Thread from Amazon in hopes that I could use this colorful product as a conductive thread to embroider a circuit.     Unfortunately the thread’s diameter is too large to smoothly thread thru the eye of a hand sewing needle.       The details….     DMC Memory Thread is a […]

Velleman solid core prototyping wire in 10 colors from Amazon January 2014.   The variety of colors is useful for prototyping breadboard circuits.   I use my favorite thread snips to strip the jacketing off the wire.  

  Use a cording foot with a zig-zag stitch to sew electric at wire to fabric.   This is a Bernina Cording Foot what has two grooves in which to guide the wires for parallel traces.   By using a matching colored bobbin thread the traces are easily identified.   This process can work with a wide variety of wire […]

  This is stranded hook up wire that I purchased from eBay.   It comes pre-tinned.   A comparison of solid core to stranded wires.

    Current flows from the battery along the negative trace (black) thru a resistor and to the negative lead of the LED. The electrons jump the P-N Junction inside the lens cap emitting light and the depleted current returns to the battery along the positive trace (red). Other blog posts on LED’s LED Close Up