DIY Electroluminescence: Great Light Without The Shocks
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 running time 29:59
Lighting a tech project with Electroluminescent material can look super professional, but it's easy to damage it or shock yourself. Learn how to safely add EL to any tech project in this episode of Systm!
Light without heat? It's called Electroluminesce when a material generates light directly from electrical current. It's found everywhere from aircraft control panels to Indiglo watches. It's a great way to light up your tech project, from backlighting LCD panels to prettying up a case mod. If you're not careful, however, you could damage the material, or, worse, give yourself a really really nasty shock.
In this episode of Systm, Dr. Kiki and David Calkins give you all the info you need to safely add EL to any project.
Wondering where to buy EL material? It's easy to purchase online from sites like Electro Luminescence Inc. but it's not super cheap. Think around $60 for an A4 sized sheet and toss in another $10 - $30 for a power inverter.
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hard wires
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united states
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0:06, 0:06
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27:49, 27:49
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the Simpsons
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" Today's system is sponsored by Netflix the united states air force and godaddy.com. And I have little strips of like tier tech -- your photos suggest an Apple but you know an iPod PC case are -- photos. Well availability the amazing properties electoral lemon essence and how to incorporate it into your gadgets and gear on today's system. Welcome to show I'm David Calkins. And acting Kiki president is -- your vacation new Folsom prison so it just after he is going on buying give us Canada they show."
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" Is a lot like a light bulb burning only dean it's just flat and operates on AC rather than DC -- have -- a light -- into a socket -- which you -- connect."
" Transformer to both CD capita in and around a positive and negative. You're you're sheet and it glows because there's little charged a luminous and -- there and when it senses electricity passing through to her as. Glows bright. Green bright pink bright yellow bright light and color you are really."
" Yeah and that everything it does that is that. There's like color vinyl over the top of it so it's not that it's actually glowing that particular color but they've got a coating over it that the light shines through and that's the color that --"
" And if you're looking for your own colors you know you can always add what's called shelves so actually most parts supply stores carried what are called -- but it is going to put a bowl of jello and it is a thin translucent sheet of a plastic click studio lights like we have here will often have -- on which is essentially plastic. So if you want your EL to show shine bright red bridge. Could break your read on there -- and --"
" There it out well you can -- it like as solid final over the top of it fairly vinyl stickers that you can use not a block the light completely. And that way you can have a design that is dark -- the -- grams of."
" For instance teachers and things like that -- CEO shirts he'll have some things this would maybe have a heart monitor appeared -- I'm and really it's actually a solid sheet of EL it's just that there's there's a cover plate there are so it's only letting. The heart showed true. And -- Yes so to make all this stuff at where we get it materials there -- web sites all over the place I happen is I'm electoral lemon essence dot com which is a company and in -- But there's also from places you can go -- around has always. -- and what you're looking for things which are literally looking for are two different components what you have is you have the EL sheet itself. Which comes in both they've pre cut sheet as well as couple she's currently working with incredible stuff so we can make our own shapes and sizes and things like that. On and then what's called an in murder and -- in murder is is quite simply just. Put batteries into it and it converts from a low voltage DC signal to very high voltage DC signal and it's really easy to zap yourself so you want to be careful when you're working with this stuff. It's not the kind of -- that musically. On the ground here in it that but it. That it -- it's shocking it's. Debts and and and he has the words can literally -- another father -- mother father and -- it's been ridiculously easy stuff to put together -- where everything we're -- showing us today is is how easy it is it's just like -- and like mobile you have to remember is. Is that if you're putting it next to anything such as a person -- dog before. Electronic components you want -- insulated because it's going to be very easy for you to zap. -- components with this easy current industry in my judgment."
" Yes that or also zap yourself while you're wearing it that you made it cost -- something actually had a friend. Who made himself a constant for burning man and it's really this beautiful costing fur and EL and it is glowing and all sorts of design and he forgot to insulate the connection and add that every time he stepped it would hit against its skin and it just political hit you consistently -- I."
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" At a cost is really actually very inexpensive to relatively speaking yes. It is more expensive then a flashlight so you know if you want to flashlight yanking it -- it -- this is more expensive so. A good eight and a half by eleven sheet plus the appropriate in -- is gonna set you back about 4050 bucks so. It's expensive but for what things are to show you how to do it is is to make. Backlit photos so when your at a bus stop or by -- you see these gorgeous you know baby hazard pick pick your favorite to advertisers and their glowing it's not because there's a light shining down on the advertisement that is because. The actual advertisement is printed on transparent column and then it's going from behind which basically makes it makes it glow and very visible you can see it from miles away."
" Yeah and it and it doesn't really get job I mean it's it's much better than having them like that black and neon or -- might well placed behind. Those advertisements would be you know shining out in these blocks of life it actually gives -- a nice cost solid very slow though it's it it's consistent throughout."
" Entire image light and dark it would be what's called hot language basically right if you have a light shining on I think basically have a hot spot here in and it's slowly. Gets you know later and later as it -- out. I'm here it's a very solid color all the way through and if you're looking for a gift I mean this is a really cool gift to give if you're gonna give somebody a framed -- anybody can print a photo it's very nice. But now using your home to make -- color laser printer. You can print off a super inexpensive she development. And then back like that and now you have a glowing photos and nobody else is gonna be getting to brighten a room like a glowing photos easily as a threat alert the other project that you came out -- it was too. Decked out you're gaming system so -- you as a gift to Patrick for when he is released proposal could specification. We're actually gonna make his. Elect as. Gaining PC glowing so when it turns it on it's actually gonna go up and we'll try to remember insulin -- and -- Ceci -- That would be at least excellence."
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" So putting together. EL sheet is pretty much the easiest thing in the world is not much different -- green light -- But I can you explain how the converter works."
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" Is the smaller sheet the writer the book glue the larger the -- the last and basically that's just because it is sucking up voltage so -- you know this has much. Fewer square inches to initiate so if I hooked up the scene in murder to Vichy it would be and much lighter color it would it would mean nearly as bright. Right answer basically for our studio it's easier to show you how this looks we have -- studio lights -- honest. How bright the blue is with a small sheet that if I tried to light up this whole sheet this -- she does light up. But it's just not gonna be as bright and of course you can buy many different voltage is numbers like this particular one. Is really designed for something Indy 44 inch by six inch sheet -- right if you want to tumble space yeah I'm. If you want something bigger for the sheets they did you have bigger -- you know so there's lots of different options you can buy. And of course there's all sorts of different colors of this is that. Blue green collar which is very nice very visible you can also get pure white collar which is good for on the photos. Which is we're gonna about what we're gonna be showing you now is how to how to act like your photos yeah."
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" make it brings them. -- now held cameras. Playing around with that photo frame and there. We were playing with development and what he's done is printed a picture onto it's you develop it sounds really -- because it's -- if it uses light really nicely. And you can print things on it people to get it trainer you don't want to increase it too -- sure it'll ring coal and I defusing the light differently is not what she -- the need to kind of an -- Look going up and smell things I didn't do it this time. Yeah. Second nothing to do it and helping but basically what we want to do -- show you how easy it is to be able to create a and EL. Photo that. And very even manner so that it really nice and pretty neat to get on your wallet."
" So. Here's a normal photograph. Me in my life on our happy holiday. I'm nice printed on balance. So thing development as is of course that if this were regular photographic paper. What would happen is that would be okay all the way and I would look nice I mean if you want to framed photo. But if you want a photo which is actually translucent. Blue line which we want you create a development com you know it's that it ten bucks for fifty -- something like that in any -- And then -- Behind the column which -- gonna do. Terrorism. -- losing contact."
" What you want to do is have your connections rigged up to the and it and that happened and you don't want anything like a person's finger text if you get a good."
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" Yeah I think and and see if you can look and feel that blue coming through an address. And friends there and around the back -- the light -- the colors in flame change that. So you might want to take it."
" Take the color at the EL that you're using into the area around time and so we're actually using all green blue EL you can actually get white you know she was innocent and I can property when it's turned off its bright pink. And it's interesting because this usually on it becomes bright light."
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" But here it's it's cold it's that you also it want selector pictures properly so in his case yes. I mean and it darkroom the flame is actually appear to be like light on fire her dress was really glowingly pretty it picked a specific picture. Because of the contrast and because it has so much. Bright lights -- against a black background and so and that way you know as I'm an interest on autopsy has seen it. And."
" You could do all I mean this is a very simple incarnation of this you could also put a circuit board into it created driver and it absurd and and -- on athletes."
" The company that I buy from electoral lemon essence incorporated. I'm base they sell drivers and so basically its its an invert and a driver at the same time when an innocent having. To contacts it has multiple contacts and basically you can cycle through Sony CD like hearts -- like slowly expand what what you're seeing is actually. And a driver which is cycling through you know."
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" So here I've actually built a chest plate for one of my walking and -- you want to want to meanders to -- and so."
" This is actually to the normal chest plate and I just cut this out of the electoral ominous sheet."
" On an invented this thing if you actually look you can see it bent around. -- edges here so it is actually a three."
" 3-D chest -- night to see the edges so you lose a little little light where that folder is but beyond that on now if I'm more into this properly. Against a robot. This actually. How it would look on sitting on the robot. I'm and so yes you can get it listed pep up pretty much anyone if your projects whether it's humanoid. Robot or it sure personal PC you can use this to -- to a keyboards on -- remembered insulate everything you know blow up your keyboard. -- and you know and getting back to the let's let's say we want to. Really you know. Kick up this this robot so -- things we can do is since we have system happen to have AM very nice laser cutter. Is you could laser cut out some letters and things like that."
" actually cut out the system letters inverted so basically what we're looking isn't -- bad. Back. Our tape are around the masking tape is not literal masking tape here reasoning actually gas tank which is very nice. Very black very opaque but you can use like I said. Just go to a store and -- always have pre cut vinyl lettering and you can buy in different sizes in any different -- tiny little letters this date like you know three inch tall letters. And so now we're gonna do that the S. -- got the SL am tired from our show logo. So I'm gonna. Carefully here put on in our. System -- students in this. -- pick up all these letters to build cricket."
" He stopped in south. -- the found out so. You don't want to do that you really really really -- might be a good idea Italian putting a lettering on and not have. Can't hear your connection -- Yeah and linger on it. Done. -- cooler and."
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" Again I have to apologize for the studio it is very hard to see in -- studio lights if you're actually here this is really great. And I really great and by masking out you know just using tape. And now we've got a nice little system logo on a little. And heard he still red light there's actually camera lights that tell you guys can see that's just a camera lights being reflected off of the clear plastic cover. But basically this is this is really bright I mean I -- this is as good as the flashlight we just happened in a completely light -- studio. So it's hard for the cameras to take all this up but I could use this as a flash. Lighten and walk around and and -- It's very similar to the ads and back lighting arms -- yeah -- cheesy commercials you know with all all the way the audience. From me a rock concert. -- When the audience for rock concert you know turns on herself crystal to light up because -- satellite -- anymore. You know it's the same kind of thing and you didn't in the same way that -- you can't -- debt debt -- light from the -- you can't hear but it's actually a very."
" Very bright light pretty light it's pretty bright and then."
" As -- people stealing your out there are also act as -- uses for it maybe not so much in AM brightly lit room. But necessarily. -- of dollars -- first find that you're making or if you want something that'll be nice man wall somewhere and it darker -- in a dimly lit area."
" The nicest thing about yoshi's being a thin plastic is that. Yeah cut with a scissors you don't need anything really complicated we just we. Cut our with a scissors on to shape and so basically in this case appears Patrick's you know super computer. And we can just put a little yelled backing -- and again. Because of our current environment you're not gonna seem very much out and and TV land. That will -- it looked like it but we'll see it will think it was a really cool it really okay. So again if we can you know we'll we'll turn off the studio lights and we'll we'll see that you guys out and -- like concede."
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" Here you can actually see Patrick sit around data -- gaming computer and I'm just back gliding through the normal venting system. And you can see this looks really cool so no matter what kind of computer you are right how it just adding a simple sheet of yellow light gives you a very nice this. Computers can't think that your computer offense and again. If you want your computer to glow bright red all you have to do is by the white yellow -- through a lot of clear red jell -- and students and you know of any of that is gonna glow bright."
" you can even get -- number of different cells and make blamed him explain to him or whatever you want and with the drivers that they sell you know you can actually make those flames flicker."
" Yeah you cut which could be really revealing look like the fact. --"
" You -- like it with Patrick's. Side panel for his computer. What I did is they just put it on I didn't actually have the computer here once you figure out the pattern and and you cut it to decides that -- want you really really really want to have some some sort of classic airs here completely isolating the circuit. Because this this ice this DC circuit run so high had such high voltage. That any computer chip that comes in touch with its its gonna -- and and that's if you got like. -- a 10000 dollar gaming computer. And you're not careful about insulating it. Then you know year fifty dollar. Really cool light system will work just fine and your 10000 dollar computer is gonna be utterly fried and it's going to fly right every component to make absolutely sure that when you when you put this stuff together. That. It's insulated because I mean just it really does hurt I mean it doesn't like like -- it's not gonna kill you -- like keep you up and her. But it's kind of like when -- again you know a light socket Murat."
" And you have to stick your hand in there and play and yes. I can imagine -- would be you know its -- that a person would want you decide for themselves they want to spend the forty or fifty dollars and they know what they're doing in order to it insulated and make their computers safe. From what they're putting in order they want to spend a couple of extra hundred dollars on the gaming system -- they initially -- did -- cut."
" If you haven't had a very nice -- a laser kicking around you can actually cut out really cool patterns on your yellow sheet you know -- actually have the flames. Yeah. I -- so -- option so many things so that we you know. -- system you know we're not going to -- you through every step of how to do absolutely everything we just want to give you ideas what would be cool. Is is I'd like to see a whole Lotta people meat stuffed with yellow sheet letting your back letting your computer. Whether you're making you know a photo frame and then send us you know pictures or videos. You know put up on your Flickr account put it up when you're YouTube account and send this links at system at revisions freedom com so that we can see what your projects are. You know here we're not really an idea factory were sort of an idea warehouse you know and so we just throw ideas. No we -- you do is take these ideas and build stuff and send it back."
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" Parts. You can do and really you know the build options are unlimited so. Give us your best ideas these were just some ideas that we we throughout Lama the goal here was not to make a complete -- while technically. The backlit frame is a completed project something and get my life to mention the cool. But you can do that with anything so."
" And you can also try at completing it and wrapping it up and speculate that that you finish. The connections a little bit more completely so that they're not just clips being stack on and you're actually -- in on the wires get. Folded neatly in in -- sent insulated and so it nicely finished -- knowing that shocked in the very end product and your wife or not kids. He Google look the Philip."
" And it's very easy to. With a temperature controlled soldering iron just -- too little -- on here and it could actually instead of using alligator clips you can clip off these ends. An -- and -- or even just -- and he's actually sounds you clipping a soft. And then. You know insulated again if it's in a frame might actually have to do is put the back of the frame. I'm you know -- laid out and and may be taped this on the tobacco frame something like that. And then you're done and just as long as you know no contacts are exposed you're not gonna burn the house time united training is just that you're gonna have a really nice little thought of this great gifts you know not just -- your wife for your husband or something like that. But if there's a really cool photo of your friends or is your friend is a graphic artist who doesn't have to be photos it can be."
" You know didn't logos a little arrows at anything just about anything and it wants -- backlit it's it's really -- lines and I don't you wish you guys do with this stuff."
" I'd -- also I think this is just it's really really cool technology and it's just so cool. Where can people go to get more information."
" If you do a Google search for electoral lemon essence you come up with a lot of different companies I happen to -- from electoral lemon essence I think income dot com. They've got good prices attendees should same day. Meant and you know its its its not expensive but it's not cheap -- it was one of those things that you've got lots of different options."
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" Today's system is sponsored by Netflix the united states air force and godaddy.com. And I have little strips of like tier tech -- your photos suggest an Apple but you know an iPod PC case are -- photos. Well availability the amazing properties electoral lemon essence and how to incorporate it into your gadgets and gear on today's system. Welcome to show I'm David Calkins. And acting Kiki president is -- your vacation new Folsom prison so it just after he is going on buying give us Canada they show."
" And luckily I have to this is very exciting had a lot of clout now -- kind of got out and I just. Not gonna happen I. So sorry to disappoint you have speaking at that pays out we've got -- aluminum sheet. That sounds really exciting and so excited about it that for the ultimate homer who -- too familiar with this keep the technology. Like it election limit thing. Electoral lemon essence."
" Is a lot like a light bulb burning only dean it's just flat and operates on AC rather than DC -- have -- a light -- into a socket -- which you -- connect."
" Transformer to both CD capita in and around a positive and negative. You're you're sheet and it glows because there's little charged a luminous and -- there and when it senses electricity passing through to her as. Glows bright. Green bright pink bright yellow bright light and color you are really."
" Yeah and that everything it does that is that. There's like color vinyl over the top of it so it's not that it's actually glowing that particular color but they've got a coating over it that the light shines through and that's the color that --"
" And if you're looking for your own colors you know you can always add what's called shelves so actually most parts supply stores carried what are called -- but it is going to put a bowl of jello and it is a thin translucent sheet of a plastic click studio lights like we have here will often have -- on which is essentially plastic. So if you want your EL to show shine bright red bridge. Could break your read on there -- and --"
" There it out well you can -- it like as solid final over the top of it fairly vinyl stickers that you can use not a block the light completely. And that way you can have a design that is dark -- the -- grams of."
" For instance teachers and things like that -- CEO shirts he'll have some things this would maybe have a heart monitor appeared -- I'm and really it's actually a solid sheet of EL it's just that there's there's a cover plate there are so it's only letting. The heart showed true. And -- Yes so to make all this stuff at where we get it materials there -- web sites all over the place I happen is I'm electoral lemon essence dot com which is a company and in -- But there's also from places you can go -- around has always. -- and what you're looking for things which are literally looking for are two different components what you have is you have the EL sheet itself. Which comes in both they've pre cut sheet as well as couple she's currently working with incredible stuff so we can make our own shapes and sizes and things like that. On and then what's called an in murder and -- in murder is is quite simply just. Put batteries into it and it converts from a low voltage DC signal to very high voltage DC signal and it's really easy to zap yourself so you want to be careful when you're working with this stuff. It's not the kind of -- that musically. On the ground here in it that but it. That it -- it's shocking it's. Debts and and and he has the words can literally -- another father -- mother father and -- it's been ridiculously easy stuff to put together -- where everything we're -- showing us today is is how easy it is it's just like -- and like mobile you have to remember is. Is that if you're putting it next to anything such as a person -- dog before. Electronic components you want -- insulated because it's going to be very easy for you to zap. -- components with this easy current industry in my judgment."
" Yes that or also zap yourself while you're wearing it that you made it cost -- something actually had a friend. Who made himself a constant for burning man and it's really this beautiful costing fur and EL and it is glowing and all sorts of design and he forgot to insulate the connection and add that every time he stepped it would hit against its skin and it just political hit you consistently -- I."
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" Really it was that bug or feature encourage that they're yeah and and I said yeah."
" At a cost is really actually very inexpensive to relatively speaking yes. It is more expensive then a flashlight so you know if you want to flashlight yanking it -- it -- this is more expensive so. A good eight and a half by eleven sheet plus the appropriate in -- is gonna set you back about 4050 bucks so. It's expensive but for what things are to show you how to do it is is to make. Backlit photos so when your at a bus stop or by -- you see these gorgeous you know baby hazard pick pick your favorite to advertisers and their glowing it's not because there's a light shining down on the advertisement that is because. The actual advertisement is printed on transparent column and then it's going from behind which basically makes it makes it glow and very visible you can see it from miles away."
" Yeah and it and it doesn't really get job I mean it's it's much better than having them like that black and neon or -- might well placed behind. Those advertisements would be you know shining out in these blocks of life it actually gives -- a nice cost solid very slow though it's it it's consistent throughout."
" Entire image light and dark it would be what's called hot language basically right if you have a light shining on I think basically have a hot spot here in and it's slowly. Gets you know later and later as it -- out. I'm here it's a very solid color all the way through and if you're looking for a gift I mean this is a really cool gift to give if you're gonna give somebody a framed -- anybody can print a photo it's very nice. But now using your home to make -- color laser printer. You can print off a super inexpensive she development. And then back like that and now you have a glowing photos and nobody else is gonna be getting to brighten a room like a glowing photos easily as a threat alert the other project that you came out -- it was too. Decked out you're gaming system so -- you as a gift to Patrick for when he is released proposal could specification. We're actually gonna make his. Elect as. Gaining PC glowing so when it turns it on it's actually gonna go up and we'll try to remember insulin -- and -- Ceci -- That would be at least excellence."
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" So putting together. EL sheet is pretty much the easiest thing in the world is not much different -- green light -- But I can you explain how the converter works."
" Greatly that -- it with AAA batteries on the inside very simple sat up. Stick the batteries in the way you normally would sickening to a flashlight anything else like that. Power button on the side on and off and inside here is a very Adam. Packed tightly packed tightly packet could edit it. Senate things we can't open it up because it might just bring forth and shoot all over the place that we cut the -- murder and driver inside of it. We all that that comes out to that connectors which IV positive. And the negative. And that you connect to the Internet in the -- and on the."
" sheets here we have an uncut Yoshi and as you concede it is pretty much just it's a sheet of plastic. And what they do is is on this clear sheet of plastic they slowly layer. Tom -- connectors as well as the molecular medicine material. So basically at that minute you can't really tell for Indian TV land but this is a very light green kind of back -- this -- over and so. This solar connector out here is the capital and and then because you can cut the sheet up on a regular basis. You have several analysts all the way around so you can can is basically we can cut -- in half. And if you had like a normal points here little off on the bottom for instance because the you can half. Then decide would be wasted it right well instead of doing that. Basically it just has you know the second and a -- all the way around the whole sheet so we can cut this up in a tiny little segments you name it became all the latest special tool to cut this out and Italian and as we do have the special -- have a blog but it's."
" Very very special tool."
" Scissors. Very special very special -- now I got I got to have me it's my first passengers in kindergarten."
" To. To turn on off. You can just hook up the alligator. You can hook up the alligator clips -- on two. You know -- cathode and anode. And that's that's really good way for testing it but what -- finally ready to go what you've cut the size that you want you want and -- it's a much better idea to sauter. Two wires onto it. Com if you're gonna do this do not use -- twenty dollar RadioShack soldering iron if you remember from Patrick iPhone episode. Those we are sorry there are pieces of crap you want a really good temperature controlled soldering iron. Because it's very easy because this is plastic -- soldering on to to actually burn a hole in the plastic and and -- whole thing useless. So basically want to -- at 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Bomb and here you can see I'm just barely put soldering. Barely put any -- on at all but not meant to -- of points -- now. We can hook it up to. You we can't these hard wires. And for those of you running its really easy to cut so basically if you want to cut this and half is really just. And that's all there is to cut in half and turn it I'm really it's just a matter of -- it. And rare it's really easy to zap yourself and it is how many trying to do. There now this will hold that -- hold -- time. Then you can see it's a nice feeling bright blue now one of the interesting things is because. You can have a small -- or a large sheet."
" Is the smaller sheet the writer the book glue the larger the -- the last and basically that's just because it is sucking up voltage so -- you know this has much. Fewer square inches to initiate so if I hooked up the scene in murder to Vichy it would be and much lighter color it would it would mean nearly as bright. Right answer basically for our studio it's easier to show you how this looks we have -- studio lights -- honest. How bright the blue is with a small sheet that if I tried to light up this whole sheet this -- she does light up. But it's just not gonna be as bright and of course you can buy many different voltage is numbers like this particular one. Is really designed for something Indy 44 inch by six inch sheet -- right if you want to tumble space yeah I'm. If you want something bigger for the sheets they did you have bigger -- you know so there's lots of different options you can buy. And of course there's all sorts of different colors of this is that. Blue green collar which is very nice very visible you can also get pure white collar which is good for on the photos. Which is we're gonna about what we're gonna be showing you now is how to how to act like your photos yeah."
" We like to a moment now for a short message from the US air force."
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" make it brings them. -- now held cameras. Playing around with that photo frame and there. We were playing with development and what he's done is printed a picture onto it's you develop it sounds really -- because it's -- if it uses light really nicely. And you can print things on it people to get it trainer you don't want to increase it too -- sure it'll ring coal and I defusing the light differently is not what she -- the need to kind of an -- Look going up and smell things I didn't do it this time. Yeah. Second nothing to do it and helping but basically what we want to do -- show you how easy it is to be able to create a and EL. Photo that. And very even manner so that it really nice and pretty neat to get on your wallet."
" So. Here's a normal photograph. Me in my life on our happy holiday. I'm nice printed on balance. So thing development as is of course that if this were regular photographic paper. What would happen is that would be okay all the way and I would look nice I mean if you want to framed photo. But if you want a photo which is actually translucent. Blue line which we want you create a development com you know it's that it ten bucks for fifty -- something like that in any -- And then -- Behind the column which -- gonna do. Terrorism. -- losing contact."
" What you want to do is have your connections rigged up to the and it and that happened and you don't want anything like a person's finger text if you get a good."
" I didn't and so now. What you can see here is is I'm gonna turn this on an Osce can."
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" In and where it's hot studio lights so editing shot -- And -- see euphemism for those people who remember."
" Yeah I think and and see if you can look and feel that blue coming through an address. And friends there and around the back -- the light -- the colors in flame change that. So you might want to take it."
" Take the color at the EL that you're using into the area around time and so we're actually using all green blue EL you can actually get white you know she was innocent and I can property when it's turned off its bright pink. And it's interesting because this usually on it becomes bright light."
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" You could do all I mean this is a very simple incarnation of this you could also put a circuit board into it created driver and it absurd and and -- on athletes."
" The company that I buy from electoral lemon essence incorporated. I'm base they sell drivers and so basically its its an invert and a driver at the same time when an innocent having. To contacts it has multiple contacts and basically you can cycle through Sony CD like hearts -- like slowly expand what what you're seeing is actually. And a driver which is cycling through you know."
" Beta VCD. Eighties and you -- programming standard you're tricky little things."
" So here I've actually built a chest plate for one of my walking and -- you want to want to meanders to -- and so."
" This is actually to the normal chest plate and I just cut this out of the electoral ominous sheet."
" On an invented this thing if you actually look you can see it bent around. -- edges here so it is actually a three."
" 3-D chest -- night to see the edges so you lose a little little light where that folder is but beyond that on now if I'm more into this properly. Against a robot. This actually. How it would look on sitting on the robot. I'm and so yes you can get it listed pep up pretty much anyone if your projects whether it's humanoid. Robot or it sure personal PC you can use this to -- to a keyboards on -- remembered insulate everything you know blow up your keyboard. -- and you know and getting back to the let's let's say we want to. Really you know. Kick up this this robot so -- things we can do is since we have system happen to have AM very nice laser cutter. Is you could laser cut out some letters and things like that."
" actually cut out the system letters inverted so basically what we're looking isn't -- bad. Back. Our tape are around the masking tape is not literal masking tape here reasoning actually gas tank which is very nice. Very black very opaque but you can use like I said. Just go to a store and -- always have pre cut vinyl lettering and you can buy in different sizes in any different -- tiny little letters this date like you know three inch tall letters. And so now we're gonna do that the S. -- got the SL am tired from our show logo. So I'm gonna. Carefully here put on in our. System -- students in this. -- pick up all these letters to build cricket."
" He stopped in south. -- the found out so. You don't want to do that you really really really -- might be a good idea Italian putting a lettering on and not have. Can't hear your connection -- Yeah and linger on it. Done. -- cooler and."
" Yes there were totally Dennis Rodman we should be using -- professional vinyl lettering that. Beginning editor planned ahead again soon."
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" Again I have to apologize for the studio it is very hard to see in -- studio lights if you're actually here this is really great. And I really great and by masking out you know just using tape. And now we've got a nice little system logo on a little. And heard he still red light there's actually camera lights that tell you guys can see that's just a camera lights being reflected off of the clear plastic cover. But basically this is this is really bright I mean I -- this is as good as the flashlight we just happened in a completely light -- studio. So it's hard for the cameras to take all this up but I could use this as a flash. Lighten and walk around and and -- It's very similar to the ads and back lighting arms -- yeah -- cheesy commercials you know with all all the way the audience. From me a rock concert. -- When the audience for rock concert you know turns on herself crystal to light up because -- satellite -- anymore. You know it's the same kind of thing and you didn't in the same way that -- you can't -- debt debt -- light from the -- you can't hear but it's actually a very."
" Very bright light pretty light it's pretty bright and then."
" As -- people stealing your out there are also act as -- uses for it maybe not so much in AM brightly lit room. But necessarily. -- of dollars -- first find that you're making or if you want something that'll be nice man wall somewhere and it darker -- in a dimly lit area."
" The nicest thing about yoshi's being a thin plastic is that. Yeah cut with a scissors you don't need anything really complicated we just we. Cut our with a scissors on to shape and so basically in this case appears Patrick's you know super computer. And we can just put a little yelled backing -- and again. Because of our current environment you're not gonna seem very much out and and TV land. That will -- it looked like it but we'll see it will think it was a really cool it really okay. So again if we can you know we'll we'll turn off the studio lights and we'll we'll see that you guys out and -- like concede."
" The night's episode."
" Here you can actually see Patrick sit around data -- gaming computer and I'm just back gliding through the normal venting system. And you can see this looks really cool so no matter what kind of computer you are right how it just adding a simple sheet of yellow light gives you a very nice this. Computers can't think that your computer offense and again. If you want your computer to glow bright red all you have to do is by the white yellow -- through a lot of clear red jell -- and students and you know of any of that is gonna glow bright."
" you can even get -- number of different cells and make blamed him explain to him or whatever you want and with the drivers that they sell you know you can actually make those flames flicker."
" Yeah you cut which could be really revealing look like the fact. --"
" You -- like it with Patrick's. Side panel for his computer. What I did is they just put it on I didn't actually have the computer here once you figure out the pattern and and you cut it to decides that -- want you really really really want to have some some sort of classic airs here completely isolating the circuit. Because this this ice this DC circuit run so high had such high voltage. That any computer chip that comes in touch with its its gonna -- and and that's if you got like. -- a 10000 dollar gaming computer. And you're not careful about insulating it. Then you know year fifty dollar. Really cool light system will work just fine and your 10000 dollar computer is gonna be utterly fried and it's going to fly right every component to make absolutely sure that when you when you put this stuff together. That. It's insulated because I mean just it really does hurt I mean it doesn't like like -- it's not gonna kill you -- like keep you up and her. But it's kind of like when -- again you know a light socket Murat."
" And you have to stick your hand in there and play and yes. I can imagine -- would be you know its -- that a person would want you decide for themselves they want to spend the forty or fifty dollars and they know what they're doing in order to it insulated and make their computers safe. From what they're putting in order they want to spend a couple of extra hundred dollars on the gaming system -- they initially -- did -- cut."
" If you haven't had a very nice -- a laser kicking around you can actually cut out really cool patterns on your yellow sheet you know -- actually have the flames. Yeah. I -- so -- option so many things so that we you know. -- system you know we're not going to -- you through every step of how to do absolutely everything we just want to give you ideas what would be cool. Is is I'd like to see a whole Lotta people meat stuffed with yellow sheet letting your back letting your computer. Whether you're making you know a photo frame and then send us you know pictures or videos. You know put up on your Flickr account put it up when you're YouTube account and send this links at system at revisions freedom com so that we can see what your projects are. You know here we're not really an idea factory were sort of an idea warehouse you know and so we just throw ideas. No we -- you do is take these ideas and build stuff and send it back."
" Right than we can steal regular ideas written. I went to see me at an American flag on Fletcher -- play nice silver. Sparkles around me fine and getting. Maybe I did election."
" Parts. You can do and really you know the build options are unlimited so. Give us your best ideas these were just some ideas that we we throughout Lama the goal here was not to make a complete -- while technically. The backlit frame is a completed project something and get my life to mention the cool. But you can do that with anything so."
" And you can also try at completing it and wrapping it up and speculate that that you finish. The connections a little bit more completely so that they're not just clips being stack on and you're actually -- in on the wires get. Folded neatly in in -- sent insulated and so it nicely finished -- knowing that shocked in the very end product and your wife or not kids. He Google look the Philip."
" And it's very easy to. With a temperature controlled soldering iron just -- too little -- on here and it could actually instead of using alligator clips you can clip off these ends. An -- and -- or even just -- and he's actually sounds you clipping a soft. And then. You know insulated again if it's in a frame might actually have to do is put the back of the frame. I'm you know -- laid out and and may be taped this on the tobacco frame something like that. And then you're done and just as long as you know no contacts are exposed you're not gonna burn the house time united training is just that you're gonna have a really nice little thought of this great gifts you know not just -- your wife for your husband or something like that. But if there's a really cool photo of your friends or is your friend is a graphic artist who doesn't have to be photos it can be."
" You know didn't logos a little arrows at anything just about anything and it wants -- backlit it's it's really -- lines and I don't you wish you guys do with this stuff."
" I'd -- also I think this is just it's really really cool technology and it's just so cool. Where can people go to get more information."
" If you do a Google search for electoral lemon essence you come up with a lot of different companies I happen to -- from electoral lemon essence I think income dot com. They've got good prices attendees should same day. Meant and you know its its its not expensive but it's not cheap -- it was one of those things that you've got lots of different options."
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" All right that's -- this -- I think back to you for stopping by helping us out of pushing back against him as well she's. So until next time I'm thinking and I -- Calkins."
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xibalba
Started discussion: September 22, 2008 @ 4:42pm GMT
xibalba
about 1 year ago
I agree.
A couple times I believe David's eyes wondered down when looking at her haha :D ;)
aaronbond
about 1 year ago
In reply to xibalba:
I agree.
A couple times I believe David's eyes wondered down when looking at her haha :D ;)
A couple times I believe David's eyes wondered down when looking at her haha :D ;)
can't blame the man. he's in the presence of beauty. ;) tell me you wouldn't?! ha. this was a pretty dope episode. David's very informative and you can tell he's a natural-born teacher. I'm glad he's on as a perm. host.
anyone else notice the high-pitched frequency when the EL was powered? it was abit annoying. is that always the case?
trivialnobvious
about 1 year ago
cool episode. I knew the stuff was out there but I had no idea it was so affordable.
This gives me great ideas for finishing touches on a lot of my existing projects.
This gives me great ideas for finishing touches on a lot of my existing projects.











Dr. Kiki and David Calkins make great hosts for system