It's only a matter of time before this guy is running DOOM in an earring

“LED’s which are so small that inhaling them is a very real danger.“ new fear unlocked: accidentally inhaling microscopic electrical components

Mitxela, I cannot believe you think no one would want to wear these. I would absolutely wear these.

adding a small layer of milky transparent plastic would help to diffuse the LED's and make them more visible when displaying graphics or letters

18:15 I think these would sell like hot cakes. You could easily sell a couple thousand of these. Wouldn't be surprised if someone was in the process of copying and commercializing the design right now

"not convinced anyone would want to wear these" my dude, there are so many people who would wear these. especially at a rave!

Given all the precision you've shown in other projects, it's actually really cool to hear you say "lazy", and still end up making a grid of 0201 components work. Your half-assing it looks a lot like the rest of us whole-assing it, or even whole-and-a-half-assing.

Man, my hands were shaking just by looking at that copper wire soldering tip!! You have a very steady hands!

I feel like all of your videos start with "Have you ever wanted...no?" But you are making all of the things I didn't realize I wanted!

Found this channel a couple months ago and I absolutely love it. The way he describes things it’s just bananas “it is unusual to be able to justify having a pick-and-place machine in your house” idk that just killed me lol

The copper wire on the soldering iron is such a useful tip! I'm going to be (attempting) to repair my laptop myself and I was a little worried about if my iron would be precise enough, but that could save me!

As a woman, an electronics nerd and a hobby manicurist: YES PLEASE! The earrings are gorgeous and I'd love to wear a pair even if it just lights up for an hour! Having something like this as part of a manicure would be a-maze-ing. Also, your soldering skills are out of this world. Hand soldering that absolutely minuscule diode blew me away.

The stacked PCBs is genius. Really appreciate you showing how the pick and place worked. As someone who also does a lot of LED PCB stuff it's nice to think if I ever need to buy a pick and place machine it's within the realm of reason

a fun use for tiny matrices like this would be eyes/faces for figures? robot character with a digital face or really expressive eyes. maybe a lego scaled grid to add some detail into builds

> I'm not fully convinced anyone would want to wear these inb4 me thinking where I should get pierced to wear one

Jesus. If I lose a laptop screw I get pissed off. I can't imagine doing anything at this level.

Why do I feel like I need that matrix led jacket. Dope and unusual project as always.

I like how the sound cuts out at 17:45 so we're not distracted by mitxela shrieking "goddammit get in there" at the microdot

Amazing project! Heartbeat sensor with the lights synchronized to the heartbeat would be cool!

You can't convince me otherwise this man is a Cyberpunk CEO in the making.

In the early 80s when i was about 15 I made some led ear studs, these were a 5mm amber led with the leads clipped short and connected to a 2-transistor blink circuit and battery with thin enameled copper wire. I was surprised that there was some interest by a couple of girls in my class and I sold two. This project is more impressive but there was a wow factor in the day to having a blinking earring too. Being a nerd you can imagine how far I got with those girls...

For stuff like MCUs which don't need the thermal pad for heat or RF, I usually omit it from the PCB - more room for tracks, and sometimes the large pad can make the part float up if there is too much paste.

Everytime I think "I'm done with KZfaq", along comes something outstanding like this insanely fiddly project and I'm sucked back down into the maelstrom. Thanks, I think.

this guy is quite litteraly sitting on a gold mine with these, and he's severely underestimating how much people want them

If it weren't for the battery life, I can see these selling quite well. Looks amazing!

This is actually sick and I would absolutely buy this

Soldering the two PCBs back to back is a stroke of genius! Really amazing to produce something on a scale this tiny, all in a home lab.

Just when you think Mitxela has finally reached the point where hand soldering is no longer possible, he busts out the copperwire tip and proves you wrong. I'm now solely convinced humans will never create a package too small to be hand soldered by Mitxela.

Why aren't more earrings like this?? This is such a cool concept.

A great substitute for protective epoxy is UV glue. It has a similar end result without being a two-part formula, and with a nice 15-25 second cure time. These are always so fun to watch. Thanks for documenting your process!

“Have you ever wanted a LED matrix on your earlobe? No? Well. Let’s make it happen anyway.” This is the most “Marker thing” a person could say.

I’ve done a lot of screen printing ink on fabric/paper and one of the first things you learn to get consistent application is to hold the squeegee at a higher angle to the screen (probably about 75 degrees). This helps you apply pressure more consistently. The screen bowing down to meet your material is your friend! You basically only want the screen to ever touch the surface of your material once as your squeegee passes over. Every time you have to do another pass risks it being aligned slightly differently and smashing the edges of what was already applied. Not only can that make your edges fuzzy but it can leave paste on the underside of the screen, depositing on the next board you pull. I hope this helps! Idk what kind of tutorials exist for solder stenciling but it’s extremely similar to screen printing and searching for technique videos of that could hopefully help you improve your application.

Love this content. "it takes 3 attempts before asking for help, it's kind of cute" 🤣

Of course I always wanted a luminescent diode matrix on my ear lobe! The earring projects are so cool, sometime in the future I would love to try to make something like this myself, owning one would be great. Right now though I know only some of the basics of circuit design and don't have acces to some much needed tools

All of your videos are "interesting electronics I could listen to explanations for for hours", yet at the same time, constantly keeping it interesting. You really understand your audience/youtube

Please keep adding tech to jewelry. There are so many of us who want this stuff. I have a few ideas of cool tech pieces but being blind means not being able to work with the software or doing the assembly of small components. Glad people love being creative and pushing the limits of what’s possible.

Another mitxela classic

I would definitely wear that! Again u never fail to disappoint

Even just an LED pin to pop on your shirt or hat or something would be an awesome use case for this. Love the micro-soldering vids!

That's insanely cool! Ring next?

It’s always a good day when you upload, I love these videos so much

I would unironically pay a lot of money for these, I love seeing all of the wearable led matrices!

I would absolutely wear this earring, just awesome and even more stunning the dual wielding welding on such mini LED's ! Waiting for version 2 or 3.0 with RGB's :D

Love to see someone make a led cube out of these

Cool. Now play bad apple on it!

These are super cool! I would totally wear these as a fun piece of jewelry to a concert, costume party, or rave; especially with how affordable they are to produce. Cuff links or something like a necklace pendant would also be super cool! I think the red/orange LED would also look really good displaying a simple low res fire like animation that flickers gently. Mesmerizing

Been waiting about 40 years for this. No lie.. I was 13yrs old when I pierced my ear with a safety pin .. ahh the 80's. Glad to see the tech has finally arrived.

LED Matrix Prince Albert when?

Great project! I would try putting a dark red filter over it (like on 7 segment displays in clocks etc.) to make the animation easier to see. You could even cover the thing with a colored epoxy.

I recommend the lumen PNP for open source Pick and place machines. Great video

“In the interest of laziness”, and there are so many more cute sayings. I may try to work them into casual conversation. Thanks!

i think it takes a certain level of insanity to attempt something like this! i cannot wait to see more from this insane man. subscribed.

I just finished soldering my very first custom PCB and I now have SO MUCH MORE respect for the kind of soldering you do. This is absolutely incredible!

I am somewhat in awe of the nonchalant way you tackle these outstanding projects!

I would want this in a button to turn on electronics. It would be so satisfying to see a quick animation when I turn it on. So much better than a few flashing lights for diagnostic purposes as well

17:51 In the middle there is another defective LED, but the project and idea are brilliant, congratulations !!

I discovered this channel a few months ago and can't get enough! I love these projects.

Saw the thumbnail and thought "Oh, cool. Another DIY project to try." It only took about a minute to realize I'm just a spectator on this one. Bummer but still super cool. Beautiful work!

This is unbelievably cool, the narration and rythm are spot on, and props to the model.

mitxela just keeps on impressing me with every video being more and more complex tiny things

Having the leds change shape/animation by sensing skin temperature or heat beat would be pretty hot

If you know anyone with stretched ears, you could make these from tunnels - the various sizes would give lots of options for displays, and the battery could go inside the earring itself if it's big enough. I really like this idea, and I know there are absolutely more people who would wear them than you think.

Your projects are unbelievably cool.

oh my god, i absolutely need these. Ive never soldered before but i love tiny fiddly projects and also i tend to be into larger dangly earrings--the initial button size would work for earrings for me, maybe i have to try this myself!!!

My mind settled on "extremely low cost, 3 wire 32x8 LED display board" - you could be all in on parts for under a dollar and you'd still have 2 i/o pins left over to daisy-chain modules together! Very capable microcontrollers.

This is more or less exactly what I wanted to do since I discovered 0201 leds. Of course you made it much better than I ever could

I love how TINY you build these things! I hope you keep making such things.

Love your work. That's quite good for your first prong setting. Usually you would bend each entire prong to open it up and bend them closer together in adjoining pairs to set the stone - or micro LED matrix, of course 😊

This is so sick, I wish I had your smarts and talents. Seriously man, you’re amazing 🤩

Back with another FRICKIN AWESOME video!! Incredible work as always!

Looking forward to your inevitable LED matrix contact lens video.

i’m LOVING these videos!!

You're my kind of nerd; thank you for sharing your projects. Your ability to film this is impressive.

End result looks absolutely mesmerizing

this is so cool, id absolutely wear these! the small size is really limiting, depending on the size of gauges you could probably do alot more but i think its the difficult limits that make this project so intriguing

really appreciate this, I've been watching a few pnp videos but I haven't seen anybody explain the process so well. I never knew about the capillary effect helping so much!

A little tip for you if you want to be able to make the leds appear sharper, place window tint film over them, this will hide the individual leds and only show the ones that are lit, adjacent leds pick up the glow and wash it out which the tint would prevent, it would also make filming them a lot easier.

all of ths is amazing. the tech, the process, the look and the presentation.

As a huge fan of the cyberpunk genre this absolutely blew my mind.

Wow, I didn't fully realize the scale until seeing them in situ. Very impressive and captivating to look at!

This is absolutely insane, awesome work!

I would definetely wear this. It is well made and looks rather pretty!

Absolute mad lad, such a lovely creation

I would definitely wear it! Im thinking about such a project for quite a while. Its so cool!

you could make the other side of the pin the controller, put a basic little bezel around the LEDs, and resin them in, then have a removable diffusion filter as an option. plus you can hide a lot more behind your ear

dude your led jewlery is DOPE

ooh man, this looks so magical

Fantastic as always, looking forward to the next project. You should consider blue tack as a friend for holding the pieces steady when hand working.

your projects looks crazy🤯🔥 but those inspiring me every time I see your videos, thanks for your content 😌✊

The DIY 4-layer board to allow "blind vias" without the crazy cost is brilliant!

This gave me a lot of help. I’ve been wanting LED gauges.

I thought that video was brilliant! The information, the scripting, narration, and presentation were exceptional. Thank you

Awesome build.

Such an inspiring high level DIY project! Hats off, sir!

Animated LED fingernail sounds like a great idea. And as @Bleudog mentioned, running Doom on it will be a marvel of engineering. Doing something like gesture control. And there are nice 0202 RGB that can bring it to the next level.

That soldering iron hack! Great work!

You are a real Master, thanks for sharing your awesome makes! Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by the smallest, most ingenious and possible ideas. So I can imagine how much fun and time you put into your projects. I am always impressed and would love to stand next to you and help while you create them. 😅😱

Ravers NEED this. Huge market potential. Especially sound reactive for festivals and nightclubs. I want.

You give motivation to people like me to continue doing what we are doing. Thanks :)

could put a tiny spring switch in to make it reactive? then only flicks on when you move? looks honestly so incredibly impressive and i’d 100% wear them