My Drunk Kitchen Apron

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Contributors: Dia
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Prep Work

Let's start with the buttons!

We used five buttons, shaped like a grilled cheese sandwich, a taco, nachos, a corndog, and a "Just say no to baking!" icon. If you'd like to use the same shapes, you can download the PDF or vector files here!

All of the instructions for completing a button out of these or any other shapes have already been demonstrated in the LDK Experiment 4 tutorial. Cut out your shapes, either using our templates or your own favorite foods, and follow the same steps to create your buttons!

buttons on apron

You may have noticed in the video that the buttons are a little bit glitchy. I chose to consider that some of the charm of a handmade gift, but you can reduce the false positive rate on those by making them smaller, so that they don't flex every time the body wearing them moves! If you REALLY want precision, you can create plain old felt shapes that AREN'T buttons, place them, and then place regular ol' LilyPad buttons next to them and wire THOSE up. It doesn't have the fun factor of mashing down on the big felt shapes to generate the sound, but you'll get a LOT more precision.