Electroluminescent wire is what makes these costumes glow and if you’ve never worked with the stuff before you’re in for a treat. Adafruit posted a tutorial explaining how to work with EL wire.

[Jeri’s] back with a series of videos that outlines the step-by-step electroluminescent wire manufacturing, making EL panels from PCBs, and assembling power supplies for EL hardware. These ...

However, electroluminescent lighting devices are not negative resistance, and therefore do not require extra circuitry for current regulation like its competitors. Since they can be shaped to be ...