Light Up Cycling Jersey

Step 3 Attach the stars to the Jersey

To attach the stars to the jersey I laser cut star shapes the same size of the bottom of our 3D printed stars out of velcro with a strong adhesive backing. 

Cut out six pairs (1 fuzzy side of velcro and 1 coarse side of velcro per pair) of stars. 

Note that you do not have to use a laser cutter to complete this step, you can just as easily cut the star shapes out of the velcro using scissors. 

Adhere the fuzzy side of the velcro to the back of each of the stars. 

When you attached the velcro to the back of the 3D printed stars you covered the cavity that the LED will rest in. To reopen this hold use a hot soldering iron to burn through the back of the velcro, this will create a neat and clean hole for the LED to fit through. WARNING: the soldering iron is hot enough to melt/burn through your 3D printed star. Be very cautious when doing this step. Avoid letting the soldering iron touch any part of the star. Also, to avoid damaging your soldering iron make sure you clean the tip of any adhesive before you letting the iron cool. 

Now adhere the coarse side of the velcro to the stars on the back of the jersey. 

In addition to the adhesive on the back of the velcro, I recommend sewing a few stitches attaching the velcro to the jersey so that when the adhesive loses its strength after you wash the jersey the stars will still be attached to the jersey.