
If you have a serger, that’s even easier. If you just have a sewing machine, fold them and stitch the edges. What you’re going to do now is finish the edges of the pocket, and the edge of the heavy cotton layer. This pocket part is the only complicated part really. You’ll also want to add that little piece where the line on the fabric is. The tan fabric is the heavy cotton, this ugly pink is the transparent fabric, and the small black piece is also the heavy cotton fabric.įold the large pieces of fabric and line them up with the fold line on the pattern. In the video I’m going to be using some different fabrics -this isn’t because I’ve lost my mind and think this looks ok, it’s because I shot this whole tutorial using black fabrics and realized since everything was black it was impossible to see what I’m doing. Fold the two large pieces down the middle.

One of a thick black fabric, one layer of a semi-sheet fabric, and one smaller piece of the same thick black fabric.
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You’ll want to download the pattern and cut out three pieces of fabric. I use the large panel available on this site, but you can also make this mask with the smaller version and it works just as well with just a bit less surface area, you just may want to add in some extra stitches to hold it in position better. I ended up ordering bedsheets and curtains on amazon, which are linked above. It requires two types of fabric – a heavy cotton fabric and a semi-transparent fabric, as well as some elastic. This pattern includes a pocket for the battery. But as a disclaimer, this is a fun project and no intended to be used as serious protection – there are plenty of other experts on this and this was really just a way to bring a bit of dystopian style to a tough situation. The nice thing about this pattern is if you want a practical mask, you can remove the electronics at any time for a normal mask, or even add in a filter for more serious protection. You can still breathe but it isn’t ideal. The main questions I’ve had on the mask are, first of all, how do you clean the electronics, and second of all, how do you breathe? The electronics are easily removable. The idea is simple through group things together in a way that would avoid color hot spots and make groups that are as close to white when averaged out as possible.If you can’t sew or don’t have a machine, I’ve also put this mask on the production line to order readymade, that can be ordered here. And obviously if you get something more complex like this LED you have to think about how those colors would best be placed. Whereas the former style will have a disco effect sometimes pretty deep into the vivarium. The reason is that the 3 RGB diodes next to each other will more quickly mix to look roughly white and look more even on the vivarium. WWWWYWWRGBWWYWWWWYWWWWYWWRGBWWYWWWWYWWWWYWWRGBWWYWWWW WWRWWYWWGWWYWWBWWYWWRWWYWWGWWYWWBWWYWWRWWYWWGWWYWWBWW The first is how most people normally space out diodes. W=White, R= red G=Green, B=Blue Y=Warm white For some reason we make the sort of mistake of thinking well we should spread them out, to make them more even right? But what that does is create more of a disco effect where you can see color hot spots. Put RGB LEDs in clusters near each other.


I can now firmly say I made one major mistake I wish I would have fixed. I dont build any but I did do some custom orders from buildmyled years ago. Since this is a build thread I will throw in my opinion on something.
