Don't LED It Go To Your Head

Stealthy hat tricks for the fashion conscious hacker.

If you’re just starting out as a hacker / maker, it can be quite daunting to look at sites like Instructables, Hackster or the Hackaday Blog. So many projects that require skills like sewing and soldering, crochet and coding - right the way through to welding, CNC milling and 3D printing!

But you can still make amazing things without all that equipment and specialist knowledge.

Today I bring you this lovely LED hat. It’s just a regular straw hat, with some LED lights inside that change colour from time to time:

Glitched GIF made from three photos of some weird bearded nerd stitched together horizontally. The nerd is wearing a straw hat which is glowing from inside. It’s lit up a different colour in each photo, and in the middle photo it’s bright red. In the background are the lights (and trees) of the Woodland Stage at the Bearded Theory festival. Yes, it’s beards all the way down. Always has been.

You don’t need to be a computer guru or an electronics whiz to make (or repair!) stuff, but once you have gone down that rabbithole you might want to learn new skills. If so, consider visiting your local hackspace / hackerspace / makerspace. The odds are good that you’ll find lots of nice friendly people there who will be keen to share what they’ve learned. Some spaces also do training courses and workshops.

Find your local Hackspace