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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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June 23rd, 2008 2

Remember this LED turn signal bike jacket we posted a while back? Well Leah Buechley made a tutorial for making your own. It has a button on each sleeve for activating the turn signals. The instructable includes a handy sewing/wiring diagram and lots of key insights into sewing a circuit for an LED turn signal bike jacket. Includes a preview of the soon-to-be-available LilyPad LEDs (from Sparkfun). Leah has the tutorial mirrored on her site.

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