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Tron Legacy pedestal CP (proof of concept)

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Bender:

--- Quote from: MikeDeuce on September 13, 2010, 02:13:15 pm ---
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.

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got the basic idea from an old thread by theCoder

As far as the Ball top, I ran the wires through the shaft and just put the LED in the Balltop
Why do you need to put the LED Through the shaft?

As it happens I'm also lighting up some Seimitsu buttons. I found that with a plexi insert inside the clear plastic plunder you can just get an led in there if you grind it down a little. It lights up the button perfectly evenly cause it's centered in the insert, then I just put a circle cut out over it like you did on yours
(I have very limited space below the CP so I couldn't go franco's route)
I'll try to post a pic later

PS: my first attempt was exactly the same way you did yours (two hot spots, one on each side very disappointing)

HaRuMaN:
the LED wires (4 wires) wouldn't fit through a standard hollow shaft.  Also, the RBG LED, wouldn't fit in a standard ball top.

Bender:
I sanded the little ring around the bottom off and it fit fine
also I soldered the wires right to the bottom of the led and used thin wire (put the resistors on the other end by the LEDWiz)
cant remember if I drilled out much in the ball top I think I did a little

I used wire from inside a cat5 cable


Ahh I see, so you did like Franco and rethreaded the ball top too, yeah that's a lot easier if you have access to machining a new shaft for sure

(I got some special shafts from Franco later that I haven't used yet, but I can't wait to put them to work)

HaRuMaN:
How did you deal with twisting?  (If the joystick twists too far, breaks the wires)

Mine have jacks on the bottom (like stereo jacks), and plug into the LEDwiz like that, so they can be twisted to infinity...

Bender:
I just anchored the wire near the base of the stick (with slack) the wire from the mini plug (which has 2 layers of heat shrink tube near the plug so it can take the stress on that part)
so essentially the mini plug doesn't turn to much the shaft just spins around it

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