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EL Wire Interface Kit. Attoparsec is proud to announce its new Eight Channel EL Wire Interface Kit! Using this kit you can easily control up to 8 strands of EL wire using any microcontroller. Why do you need this? Because EL wire blinking on a basic sequencer is boring. We can do better! Once you can control it from an microcontroller, you can invent any pattern that you like. The interface card can handle fade in/fade out effects with ease. You can do complicated, synchronized animation.

For examples of what can be done with this system, please see the demonstration page which includes both source code and video. The kit includes the circuit board and components for building the interface. The assembly instructions are provided online, as we are as lazy as we are environmentally conscious.

Lighting design & experiments

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"Read more" for technical details.... Here is a little video I tried to make. I think I spent more time trying to edit this video than building the whole project!! Update: "dcroy" built this same thing a few months before I did, and using only a 555 timer! This is the schematic. Here's the code from the Arduino IDE. Duce | DorkbotPDX. The Duce is a general purpose board for Atmel's at90usb162 and atmega8/16/32u2. Combined with open source code it can be used to easily create usb solutions. With relatively large components (tqfp, 603) the board is an excellent place to learn surface mount soldering as well as an inexpensive introduction to Atmel's 90usb family of micro controllers.

Incidentally the duce uses the same micro controller as the new arduino uno. In fact the firmware for the uno is based on Dean Cameras rewrite of the original Benito firmware. Buy one After many iterations of trying new design ideas through the DorkbotPDX Group PCB Order the new design is available through the suspect devices website. Build one A secret cache of the original Benito's was found when going through the lab. Old video. Pinouts The current design brings out port d of the processor in an stk500 format. Origional Benito Pinouts. Jeri Ellsworth self-taught engineer.