The power of electroluminescence... at my command
Oh, and don't buy Radioshack. But more on that later.
Two years ago for BM, I struggled and toiled and slaved over a hot soldering iron for countless hours. All I wanted to do is get a particularly slick EL wire circuit working... one I could use to drive arbitrary segments of EL-wire from a microcontroller. I failed. But tonight, distracted by a movie, and periodically shooing my cat away from hot tools, I succeeded. I am now prepared to unleash upon the world a glut of garish playa art. Rockin'.
No better way to spend a Friday night than fucking with high voltage electricity.
Oh yeah. High voltage electricity. Don't buy power supplies from Radio Shack. I have fallen victim to the convenience of buying random crap at the Radio Shack next door to my office. I bought one of their power supplies to power my EL wire at 12 volts.
And as I sit here writing this blog entry, the EL wire I have successfully powered flickers momentarily every minute or so. Except I turned the power supply off. Here I am generating 240 VAC, and I have a power supply that wants to kill me. I swear, man. Radio Shack.