Dissecting the Hat

So. I was told at the beginning of NOTACON 7 that shardy and pretentious git had a present for me. I was touched and a little frightened. Right before I went in with ne0nra1n to give our speech, they both approached me with this:

I wore it during the speech as well as at lunch afterwards and have decided that it is my official speaking hat. Das Tottenhat, if you will. You see, I posted on twitter at some point last year about how people are making necklaces that are gold and topped with I think crystals or fake bling that spells out their twitter names. I thought it was the funniest and gaudiest thing I have ever heard of and evidently pretentious git took it upon herself to make me a hat with shardy.

I don’t know if you can tell, but the hat started it’s life out as an Easter basket.

They then cut out the bottom of the hat and removed the handle and resewed it at the bottom. I can’t fit it under my chin, but I can put my ponytail through it so it is still an epic win. They then inserted 6 white LEDs with 6 coin cell batteries (affixed with tape and safety pins) under the pink felt beneath each pompom.

Then they made a tag with my twitter handle using a laser.

And put pink LEDs behind it on either end.

I absolutely love this hat and even though I didn’t make it myself, I’m using this as my opportunity to announce that this is the first of 365 posts. Every day I will make, hack, or craft something and then post information and pics about it here. The hat will be seen at a later date because I plan on adding an arduino to the inside of it and blink my handle in morse code and wear it at my next (and all subsequent) public gathering (whether it be DEFCON or Maker Faire). How sexy would that be?

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