{"id":17715,"date":"2013-03-06T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T11:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17715"},"modified":"2013-02-25T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T15:41:59","slug":"diy-electronic-wedding-invitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17715","title":{"rendered":"DIY Electronic Wedding Invitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ledcards.jpg\" alt=\"Electronic Wedding Invitations\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Self-described &#8220;electronics geek&#8221; Bill Porter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billporter.info\/2011\/09\/03\/how-i-asked-mara-to-marry-me-or-the-best-pcb-design-ever\/\">proposed using a circuit board<\/a>, wired up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billporter.info\/2012\/10\/08\/our-geeky-wedding-electronic-wedding-wishing-well-ewww\/\">electronic wishing well<\/a> for their engagement party, and their wedding theme was &#8220;Circuits and Swirls.&#8221;  It only makes sense that they&#8217;d send out handmade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billporter.info\/2013\/01\/29\/our-geeky-wedding-diy-electronic-wedding-invitations\/\">electronic wedding invitations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is pretty hardcore, with custom circuitry and hand-soldered wiring.  The lights flash in a particular sequence, then sample the ambient room lighting and kick off another sequence in Morse code.  You can see it in action here:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"239\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1ma1f3YOkl8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1ma1f3YOkl8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The stationery has a circuitry theme and the invitation also includes a QR code.<\/p>\n<p>Now, although this particular implementation goes well beyond &#8220;interesting project idea&#8221; and right into, &#8220;Whoa, Nelly,&#8221; this could be simplified considerably and would be an <em>amazing<\/em> invitation for a steampunk-themed wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Wiring simple circuits with just a battery and some blinky lights is pretty straightforward.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/2008\/edge-lit-holiday-cards\/\">Evil Mad Scientist Labs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/copiesofcopies.org\/webl\/2009\/02\/25\/a-simple-diy-light-up-greeting-card\/\">Aaron Williamson<\/a> both have easy tutorials for making light-up greeting cards.  Even simpler, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bareconductive.com\/products\/\">Bare Conductive<\/a> makes electricity-conducting paint that allows you to draw circuits instead of wiring them.  They also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bareconductive.com\/electro-card\">instructions<\/a> for making a light-up card.<\/p>\n<p>Add a few gears and antique-looking lettering, and you&#8217;ve got a standout invitation.<\/p>\n<p>(For bonus points you could wire in a countdown timer that kicked off a different light sequence on the actual date of the wedding, although now we&#8217;re skating close to &#8220;Whoa, Nelly&#8221; again.)<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/whengeekswed.com\/blog\">When Geeks Wed<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-described &#8220;electronics geek&#8221; Bill Porter proposed using a circuit board, wired up an electronic wishing well for their engagement party, and their wedding theme was &#8220;Circuits and Swirls.&#8221; It only makes sense that they&#8217;d send out handmade electronic wedding invitations. This is pretty hardcore, with custom circuitry and hand-soldered wiring. The lights flash in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-in-the-aisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17715"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17747,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17715\/revisions\/17747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}