[Noisebridge-discuss] SuperFlex EL-cloth demo en route

[Martin Bogomolni]

Sai,

Thanks to the communication you started, Austin HackerSpace is also
receiving a sample of this intriguing material!

-Martin

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
> New toy on the way. Email me if you want the spec documents.
>
> I wanna play with it, but y'all are welcome to also. Please don't do
> something destructive to it without talking to me first. Otherwise,
> have fun.
>
> Enjoy,
> - Sai
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jill Simpson <jsimpson at crosslinkusa.com>
> Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:50 AM
> Subject: RE: SuperFlex demo kit request
> To: Sai Emrys <sai at saizai.com>
>
>
> Sai,
>
> Your sample will ship out early to mid- next week.  The "demo kit"
> contains a 25-in2 lamp (square) and a battery-operated inverter/power
> supply.  We print the lamps on 12x12 in pieces of fabric, but the lamp
> itself is only 5 x 5 in.  Before shipping the lamps, we usually cut off
> the extra 7 inches.  I can ask them to leave as much as possible of it
> on your sample, though, so that you can cut it to whatever border size
> you need.
>
> You can cut the lamp and still make it light, as long as you maintain
> ability to connect to the "front" electrode and the "back" electrode.
> The front is easy to connect to because there is a silver outline around
> 3/4 of the perimeter.  The back electrode is under most of the lamp, but
> there is also a strip along the bottom of the lamp that connects to the
> back.  Basically, to function, the lamp requires an AC field across the
> stack -- it's like a capacitor.
>
> For real-world applications where a simple 25-in2 square is not the
> preferred shape/form, we can make custom designs.  This is a "simple"
> matter of creating new CAD designs, film, and screens, to print the lamp
> into whatever pattern we want.  There are, of course, large tooling
> costs (about $3-$5K) associated with custom designs.
>
> --Jill
>
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