Engineering Projects/Illuminate Clothing/Howard Community College/spring2012/I2550INC

Electronic Sections Expected

1.Reverse engineer the EL wire driver hardware.

2.Troubleshoot the EL wire drivers that are not working.

3.Design circuit to enable the arduino to control the EL wire.

4.Tear apart old lillypad diode circuit and sew another one.

5.Design sewing system so lillypad conductive thread does not short out.

6.Create a new script or improve current lillypad arduino LED program.

7.Find a inventor for control the led from adrinuo

8.match the adrinuo with new inventor

Team Members

Navid Jahanpour

Chris Nunez

Summary

on project 2 we try to design the inventor to control the led with adrinuo but we had the problem with transformer so we decide to find the inventor.because the transformer was ac and we supply it with dc voltage. son we buy the one inventor that it working with 3 volt battery and its produce the 3 Khz sin AD pulse.

Poster

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3 KHZ-180VOLT inventor

Story

such as i say before we try to find the inventor from internet.our inventor EL inverters allow us to drive EL (electroluminescent) wires. This particular EL inverter accepts a 12 VDC wall adapter. The output is terminated with a JST PH connector, so it plugs directly into the input on the EL Escudo or EL Sequencer board. You can drive EL wires with them directly, but you may need to re-terminate them. There is also a small switch on the side which allows you to switch between 'on', 'off', and 'blink' settings.so after this we try to control the more than one el wire with the EL Sequencer.

here is the schematic of EL Sequencer

and here is the picture of EL Sequencer

So then we have to join the two port on the EL Sequencer board together i show it with green line in the picture

after this i contact the inventor to the power port on the el board and contact the battery and then contact the el wire two the el Sequencer then we have to program the adrinu. in the end we control the el wire with adrinu.

Decision List

for first week we try to did the project with our circuit that we design in project two. second week we try to find the inventor from internet.

for third week we test the plans and data sheet for new inventor.

and for forth week we contact the inventor and control the led with adrinu.

Material List

1.3KHZ 180 volt inventor that we buy from internet 2.led wire 3.EL Sequencer 4.adrinuo software 5.adrinuo board 6.two 1.5 volt AA battery

Software List

adrinuo soft ware

Time

48 hour

Tutorials

http://www.ladyada.net/learn/el-wire/#inverter_driver_details

Next Steps

you have to hard time with control the led wire without the inventor i tried to did it but i needed the some stuffs.

1. high frequency (3khz)3to 180 volt dc transformer. 2.dc to ac inventor. 3.and RC filter to fix the frequency.