Hip Hop Skid Bikes / Hipster Sleds / HHSB

yep...believe it or not, those pic's of tynan's bike are about 4 years old. he was pretty on it. EL has it's place but comes with its own headaches...power supplies, inverters, etc. OLED's are the future but just aren't quite ready yet...they offer low power/no inverter possibilities. however, the cost of EL makes it very accessible if one is creative and knows a thing or two about practical electronics, which i don't. EL also 'flickers' (i.e. the inverter) but obviously at a frequency too high for the eye to detect. the upside being that 'lightsabre' look.

I've been out of the loop on this for a while, I did a little bit of work with Osram on OLEDs back in 2007, certainly looked like the future then, I like the idea of OLED ceilings for gentle diffused daylight - I'd always dismissed EL as being purely for Cyberdog jackets.... but that got me thinking. The link I posted had AAA battery powered inverters too so it doesn't need to be too nerdy a project!