Introduction: JOE ON THE GO BRACELETS
These personalized accessories contain a serving size dose of your favorite instant coffee or drink mix. They are perfect for a busy office setting, or after a workout in the gym. When you use your "joe on the go bracelet" having a hot cup of joe, or an ice cold flavored water, is just an arms length away!
NOTE: You may be thinking, "why not just use your pockets?" Well simply because in a lot of business attire and exercise wear there are NO pockets. :) Plus it's just fun!
Step 1: MATERIALS
You'll need very few things for this project:
~ Your favorite coffee/drink mix
~ 1 condiment bottle
~ 1 dowel rod 3/16"
~ Airline Tubing
Optional: Decorations to disguise your tubing. (ribbon & embellishments)
TOOLS
hot glue for decorations
bolt cutters (to cut dowel)
Step 2: CONSTRUCTION
1. Cut a length of tubing long enough to go around your wrist. (This will hold about 1 serving) If you want to really "load up" you can cut a length long enough to wrap around the wrist a few times, or make a necklace version.
2. Cut about a 1 inch piece of the dowel rod to be the "cork" on the bracelet.
3. OPTIONAL: Decorate it by hot glue a strip of ribbon down the length of the tubing, rolling it up, and gluing it closed. Then you can add your embellishments as you wish.
NOTE: The following steps are down without decorations so you can see things clearly.
4. Push your "cork" piece into one end of the tubing about half way.
5. Fill your condiment bottle up with your mix. It should be fairly fine.(The coffee crystals may need to be ground a little more)
6. Holding your tube in one hand and the bottle in the other slowly fill your bracelet. Try to leave about 1/2" clearance from the top.
7. Once your bracelet is full, put it around your wrist and slide the open end of the tubing over the other half of the "cork"
NOW YOUR OFF AND RUNNING!
Step 3: TO USE
~ To use your "joe on the go bracelet" simply pop one of the ends of the "cork" and dump your coffee into a mug of hot water, or your drink mix into an ice cold bottle of water. (which ever you've prepared for) When dumping the mix it is best to keep the tube straight & to pour at some distance above the cup to prevent any condensation at the end of the tube. You can roll the tube a little between your fingers if you feel it is sticking a bit.
~ Snap your now empty bracelet back onto your wrist and drink up!
NOTE: To clean it at home just remove the plug and rinse water through it until the water runs clear. Set it out to dry before next use.
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49 Comments
11 years ago on Step 3
Thats a really clever idea! Just have to figure out where to stash a cup on the go. Good work!
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Maybe one of those collapsable cups. You know the kind that telescope. LOL. ;)
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Ha ha that just might work!
11 years ago on Introduction
You had me until I saw the "crystals that pretend to be coffee to fool people into drinking it". Gah! That stuff is foul!
But the idea is wonderful!!! For things other than coffee, anyway. Unless... What about real grounds from real coffee (read: Something that you grind from beans in your very own kitchen and doesn't make a "psh" sound when you open the container.) and figure out a way to work a wire mesh filter system into the bracelet design, or build a mesh filter to cap onto the end of the tube so you can use it like a straw and drink real coffee without picking grounds out of your teeth?
hmmm.... *starts looking for the tubing in the craft room*
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
coffee filtering straw? genius .. wonder if anyone though about that :)
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
lol I got my hands on some food safe tubing but I'm still working out how to get a filter to stay on. At the moment I'm working with the small round metal screens that you use in your water faucet.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Check out
https://www.instructables.com/id/Portable-Coffee-Filtering-Straw-for-outdoors-or-co/
I think this is what you had in mind.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
interesting.. maybe mini zip ties? i said that cause i made an instructable on a coffee filtering straw.. and a coffee filtering coffee mug :)
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Brew your coffee really strong...make a concentrate, in other words. Or use espresso.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
If you are going to use it as a straw be sure to find a tubing that is food safe with HOT liquids. Other then that go for it. :)
11 years ago on Introduction
this is very awesome... it's even more awesome that you have 27000 views.. jaw dropping :- =========)
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
I only have so many views because life hacker picked it up. Most of them just bashed on it too. Oh well, to each their own. There are also lots, like yourself that like it. Thanks!
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
wow thats awesome.. someone else got featured with the coffee tea bags... he already has 9 k views.. i got to figure out how to get featured there :)
11 years ago on Step 3
Awesome idea! I think true coffee lovers will love this emergency backup ;)
11 years ago on Introduction
Can you make this so it just pumps coffee straight into your wrist?
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
I think it would work better if it was some sort of caffeine-saline solution. it would need to be both sterile and have a very specific pH, which --
*random man rushes in, leans to my ear*
*whisper whisper whisper*
oh... a joke. yeah. um.... I was joking as well. heh... yes.
*makes awkward eye contact for several seconds, then suddenly books it out of the room*
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
joke?
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
alright then, let's do it.
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
(splurts my instant coffee) lmao! You're awesome!
...now do you have any tips to get coffee out of a laptop keyboard?
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
a straw?