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Step 5Adding the electronics
For the electronics, I had 12 strands of EL wire connected to sparkfun's EL sequencer. This sequencer allows you to control 8 separate channels of wire. The board has an ATmega328, which you can program using the excellent Arduino environment.
In practice, I was kind of disappointed with the board because for reasons which I don't quite understand, it can only have one channel on at a time. If you want all the strands to appear on you can cycle through each one really fast, but this makes them appear dimmer than usual and introduces an odd flicker.
EL wire can be run in parallel, so I decided to connect all of my strands to a single channel which would still allow me to turn it on and off with the 328.
In practice, I was kind of disappointed with the board because for reasons which I don't quite understand, it can only have one channel on at a time. If you want all the strands to appear on you can cycle through each one really fast, but this makes them appear dimmer than usual and introduces an odd flicker.
EL wire can be run in parallel, so I decided to connect all of my strands to a single channel which would still allow me to turn it on and off with the 328.
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