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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:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on February 06, 2012, 03:25:12 pm ---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
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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:
--- Quote from: LASmith132 on February 06, 2012, 03:36:04 pm ---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?
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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 :)