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Step 2Suppliers
We were lucky that the suppliers we used were great, we ordered everything on-line and turned up in good time and good order.
Note, all the suppliers are UK based, which is great for me living in London, but might not be quite what you're looking for. They may deliver internationally, but if not I'm sure you can find something that delivers to wherever you are.
EL Wire and Accessories
For EL Wire, extensions, splitters and battery packs we used Surelight http://www.surelight.com/. They're a friendly bunch based up north somewhere. Sheffield I think.
Surelight sell EL wire either by the metre, or in pre-cut and soldered lengths, which is fantastic if you don't feel confident cutting and soldering your own wire. (We didn't).
All the wire we bought was their Super Bright range (2.5mm) in Red (obviously..) and was very high quality. Also they delivered very quickly, within two days from memory.
In pre-cut EL wire lenghts we bought:
4 x 10m (Trousers and Chests, used all of it)
2 x 5m (Helmets, used all of it)
4 x 3m (Sleeves, used 3, one spare)
4 x 1.5m (Gloves, didn't end up using them in the end, maybe we'll wire them up for Glastonbury).
Electronic Gadgetry for the Helmets
We bought the two Seeeduinos, an Arduino, a couple of hundred jumper wires, the two LED arrays, some LCD displays which didn't get used and the Seeeduino battery connectors and so on from SKPang http://www.skpang.co.uk. Again their service was great, pretty much for everything delivered next day.
Max7221 and Max7219 LED Controller Chips
We used the Max7221 LED Controller chip in the end, but bought a few of each variety just to play around with. We only had a short time to make the costumes before the party so I opted for a little redundancy rather than getting caught short.
We bought the chips from Premeir Farner http://www.premierfarnell.com. Prompt delivery, everything worked nicely.
Cheap Black Shiny Motorcycle Helmets with Visors
By far the hardest thing to find. I didn't really want to spend several hundred quid on a helmet that I was just going to chop to bits and ruin. Luckily I found Nightingale Motorcycles in Rugby on Ebay (they seem to be quite a big ebay seller). They also have a site here: http://www.ngales.com/.
After looking at a few of their products on EBay I gave them a call and ordered two Box Wired Full Face Gloss Black Motorcycle Helmets, plus two not-street-legal (as I was repeatedly told by the kind salesperson) 70% tint dark black visors. Again they turned up the next day, roughly �50 for each.
Note, all the suppliers are UK based, which is great for me living in London, but might not be quite what you're looking for. They may deliver internationally, but if not I'm sure you can find something that delivers to wherever you are.
EL Wire and Accessories
For EL Wire, extensions, splitters and battery packs we used Surelight http://www.surelight.com/. They're a friendly bunch based up north somewhere. Sheffield I think.
Surelight sell EL wire either by the metre, or in pre-cut and soldered lengths, which is fantastic if you don't feel confident cutting and soldering your own wire. (We didn't).
All the wire we bought was their Super Bright range (2.5mm) in Red (obviously..) and was very high quality. Also they delivered very quickly, within two days from memory.
In pre-cut EL wire lenghts we bought:
4 x 10m (Trousers and Chests, used all of it)
2 x 5m (Helmets, used all of it)
4 x 3m (Sleeves, used 3, one spare)
4 x 1.5m (Gloves, didn't end up using them in the end, maybe we'll wire them up for Glastonbury).
Electronic Gadgetry for the Helmets
We bought the two Seeeduinos, an Arduino, a couple of hundred jumper wires, the two LED arrays, some LCD displays which didn't get used and the Seeeduino battery connectors and so on from SKPang http://www.skpang.co.uk. Again their service was great, pretty much for everything delivered next day.
Max7221 and Max7219 LED Controller Chips
We used the Max7221 LED Controller chip in the end, but bought a few of each variety just to play around with. We only had a short time to make the costumes before the party so I opted for a little redundancy rather than getting caught short.
We bought the chips from Premeir Farner http://www.premierfarnell.com. Prompt delivery, everything worked nicely.
Cheap Black Shiny Motorcycle Helmets with Visors
By far the hardest thing to find. I didn't really want to spend several hundred quid on a helmet that I was just going to chop to bits and ruin. Luckily I found Nightingale Motorcycles in Rugby on Ebay (they seem to be quite a big ebay seller). They also have a site here: http://www.ngales.com/.
After looking at a few of their products on EBay I gave them a call and ordered two Box Wired Full Face Gloss Black Motorcycle Helmets, plus two not-street-legal (as I was repeatedly told by the kind salesperson) 70% tint dark black visors. Again they turned up the next day, roughly �50 for each.
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