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Tron Legacy pedestal CP (proof of concept)

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Roo:
ooo pretty lights!  shiny!

MikeDeuce:
Thanks folks! Quite the positive reaction there, guess I'm on the right track :)


--- Quote from: EvilNuff on September 12, 2010, 10:33:29 pm ---Very nice!  Any chance you're willing to share details on how you did it? :)

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Sure! Nothing too fancy... the CP top is backpainted acrylic. The clear part is spray-on window frosting. Behind that is 1/2" MDF with the clear bits roughly routed out. Behind that is some rough cut acrylic light diffusing sheet (not sure the exact name -- as seen on fluorescent tube lighting). Behind that is a bunch of arrays of LEDs that I rigged up to hit it from a distance (3"-4"). It's kind of sloppily assembled at the moment, so I could see if this would even work out. From the back it doesn't even remotely assemble a finished product.

Because of the distance from the LEDs, there's tons of light bleed. My ultimate goal is to physically isolate/box-in portions of the light banks, so I can have some animation control with an LED-controller. The top part is one group that will change together, same with the bottom part... then I'd like to isolate the 4 quarter-circles around the stick (picturing a pair of opposing sides lit, or some sort of rotating effect).


--- Quote from: push2reject on September 13, 2010, 12:18:37 am ---That is so sweet.  I to am banging around a 'Tron Legacy' style CP in my head.   Is that proof of concept equipped with RGB? Right now I'm mocking up a font based on the new tron logo/font.

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Yep! All RGB LEDs, which I've attempted to keep modular, so they're all on their own bit of solderable bread board. It's taking twice as long to solder them up, but it's helped me experiment with several configurations during prototyping. Nice work on that font, too! I could see something like that being very helpful -- will keep in touch :)


--- Quote from: Bender on September 12, 2010, 11:20:47 pm ---lets see the back of that sucker!!!!

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Sure thing -- it's very rough back there though, but I'll grab a shot this evening. The LEDs aren't mounted at all, I just propped them up.

Bender:
is that set up lighting the buttons too?
And you have a separate LED for the ball top
oh, and I really love the slight shadowing effect from the depth of the cut MDF

really well done!

This is really helpful, I've been using a slightly different approach to the lighting, but basically the same idea with the back painted acrylic (I'm using cut vinyl as the mask, just for this test, but my plan is to paint the final)


1/4" acrylic with LED in the bottom


same wrapped in black electrical tape and lit

MikeDeuce:

--- Quote from: Bender on September 13, 2010, 01:01:56 pm ---is that set up lighting the buttons too?
And you have a separate LED for the ball top
oh, and I really love the slight shadowing effect from the depth of the cut MDF

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Awesome, love the idea-sharing -- great way to push all our projects ahead!

For the buttons I currently have it set up with dual LED diy circuit boards and 2 drilled holes on each Seimitsu (would've been so much easier with Happs, d'oh!). Unfortunately the intensity is not as even (the massive light bleed in that photo actually helps that issue). I might need to take a page from the Franco book with what he did with those nylon tubes:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=93936.msg1035650#msg1035650

For the ball top, the RGB LEDs I have are too fat to squeeze into the ~1/8" drilled shaft so I'm using acrylic rod a la fiber optics. It started as just another theory and it might work out well enough if I can figure out a good way to mount the LED (it's just hot glued in the picture). I'll snap a pic of that as well.

Your idea with the 1/4" acrylic is also really clever... If the sides were also painted/masked I could see those allowing exceptional control over light bleed.

Exciting stuff!

HaRuMaN:
I tried the fiber optic route and found it to be too dim (when lighting RGB balltop), so I had some custom shafts / balltops made that would accommodate a 5mm RGB LED.

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