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Jul 29, 2009

What I did on my summer vacation

Ok, my real vacation hasn’t happened yet.  In a few weeks, I’ll go traipsing around Glacier National Park and explore all that Montana has to offer.  But for the last month or so, I’ve been teaching an electrical engineering class for high school girls as part of the Women’s Technology Program. It was great fun.

Popular consensus was that learning to solder was the best part of the class. Man, if you want girls to feel empowered, just give them a hot iron and tell them to go melt metal. It works really well.

What did we solder? Jewelry. We’re girls.

(Well, we also soldered some heart-shaped circuits… because we’re girls who like things that light up. See here.)

I didn’t want to be left out of the fun, so I made some jewelry too. I thought about where I would wear jewelry made of wire and resistors. I’m going to be in a wedding in August, so first I thought I would make blue earrings to match the bridesmaid dress that I’ll be wearing. Then I thought that the bride wouldn’t really appreciate that.

So I thought some more. And finally made these.

earrings

Where will I wear such hideous, tacky earrings? My 5th reunion is coming up next spring. I’ll fit right in with this guy.

Reunions
Photo is courtesy of the Princeton University Alumni Association. And some awesome dude in the class of ‘42.

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5 Responses To This Entry:

    What were the resistors rated at?

    Is it bad that I was thinking it would be cool to use a small, light weight battery and an LED bulb in the earrings?

    Posted by: nakoruru on August 5th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    I’m actually not sure what they’re rated at. They don’t all match, but there are probably a lot of 3s and 0s involved. :-)

    I’ve had a bunch of people suggest that we should have included a battery. I draw the line at jewelry that lights up… though perhaps it would work for Reunions.

    Posted by: ndilello on August 5th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    Summer vacation is nearly over, and the Ninja is back!

    Wow! Jewelry made of circuits! That does sound so MIT!

    Posted by: ninja on August 8th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    MIT AND girly! :-)

    Posted by: ndilello on August 9th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    Of course! And girly!

    Posted by: ninja on August 12th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

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