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How to make an Earbud Necklace
Always hands free!! Add a necklace to your earbud/microphone and hang the cord in your shirt (and then out toward your favourite pocket; I use my shirt pocket). Makes it so that you can always use earbuds for your phone. The cord is never tangled. It's safe for driving.
Simply create a necklace and attach it to the earbug cords then put it over your head. Easy!
Sugru provides the bumps that make the necklace attachment stationary. (It is annoying otherwise because you have to keep digging around your shirt to find the buds.)
I use a fifteen dollar stainless steel chain and simple craft jewelry bits to attach it. Fabrication time is fifteen minutes plus Sugru curing.
One other thing. Because I am a madman, I had my shirts modified. I had a seamstress I know put a button hole in the breast pocket of every shirt I own. I drop the cord into my shirt and then out the button hole and into my phone. It makes it so that my phone is more like a telepathic implant than an accessory.
Kit
- Earbud/microphone and phone (no point without them)
- 24" stainless steel chain (cheap plated copper goes bad quickly)
- A pair lobster claw necklace clips (craft store, these can be cheap copper)
- Little wire circles to attach the lobsters (you need two, hundreds cost pennies)
Step 1
Here is what you are trying to make and the parts required.
Step 2
Here's what it looks like when it's installed. Notice the bumps of Sugru where the necklace meets the wire.
There is one important thing to consider here, the geometry. That is, you need to choose the point of attachment on the ear buds and the length of the chain. The setup in this picture is flawed. The chain is a little too short and the wire above the attachment is a little too long.
I suggest you do what I didn't do. Tape the chain to the attachment point and make sure it goes over your head. However, you want the part over the bumps long enough so that it is all hanging from the chain, not your ears.
Step 3
And here is where the real project happens.
Use the tiny wire circles to attach the lobster clip to the ends of the chain.
Use Sugru to make little bumps to constrain the lobster when attached. Notice that the bumps are different size and shape. This makes it so that you can easily tell which end to pull out of your shirt when you answer the phone. (It's very annoying to pull out the Y-end instead of the bud.)
