I have a project on later in the year at a certain arts festival in Nevada that i need to develop some gizmos for. One of which is involving bicycles, and EL-wire... strange bedfellows maybe, but i need to develop a controller that can drive multiple strands of different coloured EL-wire. For development purposes i don't want lots of untidy wire hanging about, so i came up with a low-tech but effective solution, the EL-wire barbers pole!
The connectors for the 9 EL-wires are off to the base at bottom left, these will plug into my controller. The fixing is super low-tech Scotch tape (sellotape :) which is useless for anything long-term, but i don't want this permanently attached. The 'pole' is just a regular mailing tube, i happned to have white one kicking around, so it helps to brighten the el-wire even more!
Next stage, to build the controller, i'm thinking about re-using the code and technology from previous flourescent tube light drivers i built a couple of years ago, or designing from scratch again. I'll probably chicken out and go for a PIC Microcontroller technology i know and trust (and have loads of spares for already) PICAxe.
No comments:
Post a Comment