A set of Charmware embeddable circuit boards that hold a short push/pull MicroSD card socket, intended as jewelry components.
Left: an earring assembled with scale maille; an assembled PCB with MicroSD card socket; a bare circuit board
As a professional media creator, I use MicroSD cards to quickly offload large video files off my phone, while keeping my archive handy for future videos. To that end, I always carry a MicroSD-USB adapter, which is plugged into a Lightning adapter, which plugs into my iPhone. (In the past couple of years, my iDevices seem to have stopped being able to power a simple USB flash drive??)
(See: my mobile media setup [WIP])
…So anyway, this series allows me to stash those data cards inside jewelry. Because it’s cool. 🤩
Other applications:
Besides soldering on the socket, you can attach it to this PCB – or to any other piece of flat jewelry – with servo tape. That’s how I made the first prototype, and I continue to use this method sometimes; it’s so rugged that I can literally rip the card socket apart before the tape will detach.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3mKW2Q10lZE
Me wearing the black/gold scale maille earring, with it open to show a socket holding a MicroSD card
With the earring closed
The black/blue maille earring, open to show the Charmware-branded side of my prototype circuit board