I ❤️ My Stuffie
WHAT WILL YOU MAKE?
You know your stuffies love you–almost as much as you love them. Here’s a way to show it! A flashing LED makes a beating heart on the inside, and a few stitches with embroidery thread shows the love on the outside.
Materials:
- Hackable stuffie
- Tactile on/off switch with leads
- Transparent tape
- 5mm slow-flashing red LED
- Hookup wire
- One 68-ohm, 1/4-watt resistor
- Electrical tape
- Red embroidery thread
- Sewing thread matching the color of your stuffie
- One 3V coin-cell battery (CR2032)
- Coin-cell battery holder
- Two scraps of felt (any color): one 1" x 0.5" and the other 1" x 1.5"
- One sew-on snap
- Scissors (sewing scissors work best, if you have them)
- Craft knife
- Black marker
- Wire strippers
- Soldering iron and solder
- Third-hand tool
- Needle-nose pliers
- Hot-glue gun and glue sticks
- Pencil or chalk
- Sewing needles
