Color Ringed Buttons

[LASmith132]

I was looking for pushbuttons that only have a ring of LED light color around the edge of the button instead of the whole thing being illuminated.

I have seen a DIY example of this when someone cut a piece out of the button and put a piece of plexi in its place so that the light only shinned up through the sides of the button (very Tron like) White button blue LED ring.

Does anyone know how this is achieved? I can’t find that original post to save my life and would love to have this effect for my CP.


Thanks in advance guys!

[Nephasth]

There is no off the shelf solution. The least labor intensive way to do this would be to combine clear translucent IL buttons with solid colored ones like so:





I believe this may be the DIY solution you were looking at: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=88912.msg971849#msg971849

[LASmith132]

There is no off the shelf solution. The least labor intensive way to do this would be to combine clear translucent IL buttons with solid colored ones like so:





I believe this may be the DIY solution you were looking at: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=88912.msg971849#msg971849

First off thank you for taking the time to find those pics!

That Looks similar to what I was trying to achieve but how the original post set it up was that the guy cut the bottom half off a button replaced that piece with plexi and the light only shined up the side of the button, not the whole outer ring.

any other ideas?

[Nephasth]

That Looks similar to what I was trying to achieve but how the original post set it up was that the guy cut the bottom half off a button replaced that piece with plexi and the light only shined up the side of the button, not the whole outer ring.

any other ideas?

Check the link in the last line line of my first post. There was somebody else who also did a similar thing as well, I might do a search for it later.

[Ond]

That would be me. Bout pg. 4 of my project or check Mame Abduction project thread. I,d make em for ya but you'd hate the price

[Nephasth]

A similar example:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=93936.msg1072708#msg1072708

[LASmith132]

I will check that link when I get home later( I can only check some pics here for some reason ?)

Thanks again guys and keep the posts coming if you can think of any others.

Cheers and thanks again!

[wp34]

That would be me. Bout pg. 4 of my project or check Mame Abduction project thread. I,d make em for ya but you'd hate the price

Funny I was just looking at that part of your thread last night trying to decide if I wanted to take that on or not for my project.

Your demo turned out real nice.  Are you still planning on making those buttons for your cabinet?

[Ond]

That would be me. Bout pg. 4 of my project or check Mame Abduction project thread. I,d make em for ya but you'd hate the price

Funny I was just looking at that part of your thread last night trying to decide if I wanted to take that on or not for my project.

Your demo turned out real nice.  Are you still planning on making those buttons for your cabinet?

I won't be using these buttons for the Astro 'Retro-Futuristic' cab, I've gone with solid red Seimitsu buttons over the Happ style because it suits the design style better and because there's plenty of lit up goodness elsewhere on the CP.  I want to build a bartop for my son and will use black Happ buttons with the green or blue light ring mod.  They are not that easy to make, precision cutting, shaping of the insert and carefully aligned gluing together is required to get a good result.  Now and then folks ask about them.  People with access to milling equipment or CNC machines could probably turn them out more easily.  I may do a tutorial video on how to make them and get a good result, I learned quite a lot from making the prototype i.e. what NOT to do.  Also check out ninjasquirrel's take on the idea in his very cool bartop project.

[wp34]

That would be me. Bout pg. 4 of my project or check Mame Abduction project thread. I,d make em for ya but you'd hate the price

Funny I was just looking at that part of your thread last night trying to decide if I wanted to take that on or not for my project.

Your demo turned out real nice.  Are you still planning on making those buttons for your cabinet?

I won't be using these buttons for the Astro 'Retro-Futuristic' cab, I've gone with solid red Seimitsu buttons over the Happ style because it suits the design style better and because there's plenty of lit up goodness elsewhere on the CP.  I want to build a bartop for my son and will use black Happ buttons with the green or blue light ring mod.  They are not that easy to make, precision cutting, shaping of the insert and carefully aligned gluing together is required to get a good result.  Now and then folks ask about them.  People with access to milling equipment or CNC machines could probably turn them out more easily.  I may do a tutorial video on how to make them and get a good result, I learned quite a lot from making the prototype i.e. what NOT to do.  Also check out ninjasquirrel's take on the idea in his very cool bartop project.

Thanks for pointing me at ninjasquirrel's build.   

I missed that.  I like his jig for cutting the buttons.