Ethernet Bracelets

ThinkGeek.com sell bracelets made from twisted pair ethernet. $13 for one. Owch. That's about 2c of cable and 20c of clasp. Still, it would make a great present for Chris and Elizabeth.

So I made my own. Took a red, green, and blue cable home and did some dissection. Stripped the inner twisted pairs from the outer. Got some clasps from the craft shop and fixed one to the end of the twisted pairs. Then I cut the outer sleeving up into short sections and threaded it onto the twisted pair. I made sure the sleeving didn't have any writing on it - you may want to use sections with writing. To stop the sleeving sliding off, the first short section can have one twisted pair run outside of it. If you want you can almost braid the sleeving with the twisted pair all the way along. Thread more sleeving until the bracelet (or necklace) is almost complete, then again put the last piece on so it is locked. Use whatever colour pattern you want. I used simple repeating RGBRGB for the bracelets but changed to RGBBBGRGBBBGR with longer blue sections for the necklace. Add the other half of the clasp and its done.

I made two bracelets and a necklace for C+E, and then found a nice presentation box from a local shop. On the inside of the lid I wrote "To Chris and Elizabeth, my favourite twisted pair".

Now I have to make some more for Jenny, because she thinks I was being really cheap! I'll try and get pictures for these though.

Here they are - a bit dark though...



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