Ryan McFarland

I don’t speak Klingon and i don’t know how to write any code from scratch, but by many measures i’m a geek. I was using a duct tape wallet for quite a while but they have become so ubiquitous that i needed something new. During the routine dissection of a desktop computer keyboard i pondered the plastic sheets with the printed circuits on them. The material seemed durable, flexible, and it just screams electronics geek. So i made a wallet out of it. The first one i made about a year ago. I submitted the idea and sample to ReadyMade Magazine and they liked it but didn’t publish it. I made another in October and started using it daily. Over 5 months of use and i have only needed to add one small piece of tape to repair a torn seam. A few weeks ago i submitted the idea to Make: Magazine but i have not heard anything back. So now i’m entering it in the Instructables Popular Science contest. For a complete and detailed tutorial go to the Instructables true geek wallet page.

Open up an old keyboard and pull out the circuit sheet and make a wallet out of it. It is much more nerdy than duct tape.