#badass Woman Project Entry - Victoria Kazachenko

Your Name: Victoria Kazachenko

Where you live: Malden, MA, United States

Current Job: Stay at home mom: cooking, checking homework, changing diapers... I don't have any education in electronics. I got interested in it because my son asked for Snap Circuits and I wanted to be able to help him. He lost interest in electronics pretty fast, but I didn't.

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaeEfkJ0fyLrVn_NZhFeZxA

Tell us about your project: Night Safety vest using EL wire and Arduino UNO with brightness and blinking frequency control

Are there any links or files you'd like to provide that support your project? Code: 2knobs_blink_frequency_brightness_elwire.ino

Your Project video:

Attachments:

2knobs_blink_frequency_brightness_elwire.txt.zip

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ilvyanyatka over 5 years ago in reply to rocits

Thank you!
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ilvyanyatka over 5 years ago in reply to cstanton

Thank you!
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rocits over 5 years ago

Nice Project, many applications, there's gonna be a load more bikes on the roads now! Safety first!

I added your project video to a YouTube playlist here to keep track of channels/videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFDZhLtOt5g&list=PLUqSARZt5KdEc90IqY_D4yOoR3qGEeSMC&index=2&t=0s
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cstanton over 5 years ago

It's definitely no simple thing to control higher voltage electronics (which my understanding EL Wire is) from a low voltage/current controller such as an Arduino. Nice job
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ilvyanyatka over 5 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

You are right it is inverters that humming. I meant that if you attach orange wire to the inverter it will hum much less than if you attach yellow wire to the same inverter. At least it is the case with three EL wires I have at home. Sorry for confusion.
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Workshopshed over 5 years ago in reply to ilvyanyatka

That's useful to know, I thought it was the invertors which were humming not the wires.
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ilvyanyatka over 5 years ago in reply to lorrainbow

From my observation it depends on the color of EL wire. Yellow one hums quite noticably. Orange hums very little, hardly noticable. Red one is in-between. This is why I decided to go with orange.
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lorrainbow over 5 years ago

I love EL wire, I haven't tried to connect it to the a controller yet. Does it hum when on? I found that annoying with EL products
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