Flexible Aluminum Electroluminescent Display - No Transparent Conductor Needed

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How to make a flexible display with aluminum foil, EL phosphors and a simple electrolytic etching bath.

Comments

[Jake Turner]

I'll be trying my hand at this soon Jeri, I have a lot of ideas for custom EL displays and can't afford to simply cut up EL panels into what I need. Would you care to watch a video of mine and give me some feedback? In it, I demonstrate 100hz-reactive EL ribbon on a top hat with audio input processed by Arduino, using a resistor-capacitor filter to isolate the 100hz audio band, an LM386 IC to create the line level voltage, and a transistor to switch the EL supply on and off. Crude, but effective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBboYlzd4CM

[urijiii]

какойто развод...........показать показала а попробовать не даёт...........

[RubikAdams]

Where I can buy the kind of white sand? that you add at the end.

And congratulations for the projects and the technical illusions!!

[SUNDERSHIVAH]

And one more thing i want this idea to the next level i need the assistance how many watts the layer per cm square is consumed? and how can the brightness of light can improved????

[SUNDERSHIVAH]

Very nice efforts what are the other alternative illuminating ink please let me know... thanks... oh i like positive approach of seeing thinks !!!!

[Dain Unicorn]

That offers so many possibilities, and your use of an erstwhile warning sticker is resonating with me. This along with EL wire might be a suitable means to offer low/no-light guidence, and since there is current flow it could be tested for my automated devices as well.

Bravo, very well done.

[Geek]

This is so kewl that it forced me to get an account just so I could tell you that. lol Awesome stuff!

[conundrum2142]

this should also work with an ultrasound cleaner to porate the aluminium.
not as well but just takes a bit longer.

-A

[LemurX]

Dielectric Ink = Dielectric Grease? :o

[best_brothers]

SUPER LIKE!

[Ma3oud]

where is the video??

[bijikenyot]

hei..the video is already gone

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[Head-ZonkStudios]

This is so cool! I have got to try and make something with that electroluminescent phosphorous!
Please tell me, where can you get it?!

[angel91250]

Good job.
Does it require high voltage AC supply?

[Electronician]

She said 20V limited to 1A.

[angel91250]

NONONO...What you said is electrolysis(video 1:05). But what I want to know is...how could she make it emit light(video 2:10)?

[dark sponge]

No, that's just for the etching. For actually powering it, I'm pretty sure it uses a HV AC power supply.

[BlueFusion]

About 100v AC at about 1000hz.

[hogtowner]

That is just the COOLEST thing I have been e-mailed in a long time!!!

[dacker]

A fantastic example of true science, turning a failure into something new, useful, and creative.

Like Post-It notes, microwaves for cooking, Teflon, and penicillin.

How about a bill of materials and suggested sources?