Here I was, moments from having red LEDs surgically implanted into my retinas, when this DIY Terminator sunglasses hack comes along and rescues me from a lifetime of pain, blindness–and utter coolness. GEARFUSE soldering meastro Vince Veneziani said he did this in about five minutes, but newbies might want to take their time and save themselves a melted eyeball or two.
The materials list is pretty straightforward, and the only real issue will be finding a badass pair of sunglasses at your local drug store.
- Two red LEDs
- Two 100 Ohm resistors
- Solder and soldering iron
- A watch battery – I used a 3.3V one I had lying around
- Solid hookup wire (two colors), about a six inches worth
The soldering is optional but recommended. Driving, however, is not recommended while wearing, black leather jacket or not. Actually, on second thought, we doubt you’ll be able to do much of anything while wearing these. [GEARFUSE]
Mike
August 12, 2008 at 6:49 PM
scrap the two resistors and one LED, get two watch batteries, use a rubber band to fix them onto the end of one of the arms on the glasses (so the batteries rest behind your ear). Then blue-tac one led to the glasses (also cuts out painful back-light while wearing), get two THIN wires and wrap them around the arm with the batteries. one for pos, one for neg, connect the other ends to the LED. easy.
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February 12, 2009 at 1:46 AM
I built something similar for Halloween. The whole costume was really impressive!!
See a quick ‘how to’ in Costumzee http://www.costumzee.com/how-to-costumes/view/4428/ or the “extended version” in my page (spanish) http://www.el-magnifico.org/doku/doku.php?id=terminator
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