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BAMF2010: DIY electroluminescent displays
In this video from Maker Faire, [Jon Beck] of CLUE — the Columbia Laboratory for Unconventional Electronics — demonstrates the unexpected ease of creating custom electroluminescent (EL) displays using...
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More EL chemistry: Luminescent ink
[Jeri Ellsworth] continues her experiments with electroluminescence, this time she’s making EL ink. The ink she’s looking for is Zinc Sulfate in a solution. The process she chose is to re-dope some...
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High Voltage Hacks: All About Electroluminescence
Although many might not know it, electroluminescent materials use high voltage, and thus qualify for our featured topic. Many may assume that these sheets work in the same way as LED lights, using...
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How not to dim EL panels, TRIACs!
We’ve all been there: an exciting brilliant idea, scratched onto a napkin, hastily plugged into a breadboard, all for naught. Even the best ideas sometimes suffer from a heavy dose of reality....
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How TO dim EL wire: Current limiting the oscillator!
[Ch00f] finally made a breakthrough with his efforts dimming EL wire. He’s been at it for months and the last we heard his TRIAC idea had sputtered out. Not to be discouraged and with an...
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Months of failure lead up to this EL panel dimmer that pulses to the music
Way back in March [Ch00f] took on a for-hire project to make a suit that lights up to the music. He decided to build something based around a pulsating EL panel. He’s put a lot of time and tried of a...
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Electronic wedding attire for a geeky wedding
In the past we featured many projects that were used at [Bill] and [Mara]‘s wedding. However we forgot the most important thing: their electronically enhanced clothes. As you can see from the picture...
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Building EL Displays On A PCB
Elecrolumiscent displays have seen a huge swing in popularity recently, but only in limited forms like EL wire or flat EL panels. You can, of course, cut and bend these wires and panels to suit any...
View ArticleCyberpunk Jacket Is The Garment of Choice For The Streets of 2019
Fans of science fiction and related genres have always been disappointed by real life. The future holds so much promise on paper, yet millions were disappointed upon reaching 2015 to find that...
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Ben Krasnow at Supercon: Making Alien Technology in Your Own Shop
Ben Krasnow has a vision of future electronics: instead of the present PCB-screwed-into-a-plastic-box construction, flexible circuits will be deposited straight onto the plastic body of the device...
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Playing NES Games On An Industrial EL Display
Modern consoles are fun, but there are certain charms to retro gear that keep hackers entertained to this day. The original NES is a particularly ripe ground for projects, being one of the most popular...
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