Project Rae Detour

I promised more meta hints and then failed to deliver. As my newspaper comics counterpart would say, "ACK!" However, instead of eating a pint of ice cream and talking to my dog, I'm going to show you guys what I've been doing.

This is 110% inspired by Rae and her associated (though different!) project. Drumroll, please!

Full Adder Circuit Bracelet

Wait, what the hell is that? you ask. At first glance, it seems to be a mostly-random jumbling of beads and chains in the haphazard multi-strand "boho chic" style or whatever that's so popular these days. Oh wait, there's more!

This bracelet is inspired by perhaps one of the most unlikeliest pieces of jewelry inspiration, a full adder diagram.

This picture, rather, is a better help:

There are two AND gates, two XOR gates, and one OR gate. Each gate is represented by a different kind of bead. Seriously, go ahead and double-check! AND is mother-of-pearl, XOR is coral, and the lone OR gate is some kind of carved thing I assume to be plastic. The diagram Rae sent me for Project Rae had random values assigned (based on color distribution) so I just went with that, but as you can see there's a whole host of values to be used!

I really like how this came out. It's a nice change from pure beadery, and it also presents an interesting construction challenge. Overall I'm happy with how this "proof-of-concept" bracelet came out, but it's far from perfect. My method for this one (because I definitely want to make more!) needs some tweaking. Even though this is a pretty simple circuit, it took way longer than my numbers bracelets do! Someday I hope I can get this down to a science (pun intended) and bead up something like this:

What out-of-the-ordinary things inspire you?