Wow that was a quick reply.. hahaha. What im doing is using el wire, el pads and some leds. I really am looking to be able to set up a few basic pattern like having rings going up and down my legs and so fourth. I did a rough count and come up with 20 independent channels ill need to be able to toggle on and off. As farbas being able to select how i do it while out is further down the road. Power wise i have about 10 usb portable usp power packs. I ran a usb notebook lite for about 20 hours off of one. That will be the powersource for the arduino. To power the el wire and pads, im working on using lipo packs for each limb tobmaintain steadypower and not deal with power draining cauging a dimming effect. I have worked with el wire and pads for auto mobile applications and have had great luck with cat5e wire and connections. Higher voltage and low current. Im probably going to go ahead and buy a development board and start tinkering. I see the uno boards all over the place like on ebay and other sites. Anything i need to stay away from or gravitate toward?