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RGB strip lights?
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: Mysterioii on July 18, 2012, 10:28:24 am ---BTW that's beautiful work Nephasth, in fact so much so that I may totally rip it off... ;D
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--- Quote from: CoryDee on July 18, 2012, 11:44:00 am ---Nephasth - Epic work on that cab, I have been lurking about watching your progress. Also great to know that those Non-Addressable one work with a MAME compatible LED controller. If I win this new auction I might have to go that route with my arcade.
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Thanks guys! Definitely add cabinet lighting of some sort to your cabs. Arzoo is adding more features to LEDBlinky for cabinet lighting, and it would be great to see more projects utilizing his hard work.
CoryBee:
Thanks for letting us watch that beast of two heads get transformed. Happen to have any shots of the strips being connected to the LED controller? Also, how do you plan to utilize them? Blink or change colors for a certain game?
I am definitely using some of these LEDs for my arcade build, if only I had picked a theme yet ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, not sure where to put them either.
:cheers:
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: CoryDee on July 18, 2012, 10:06:20 pm ---Thanks for letting us watch that beast of two heads get transformed. Happen to have any shots of the strips being connected to the LED controller? Also, how do you plan to utilize them? Blink or change colors for a certain game?
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I haven't put out any pics of the inside of my cab showing the wiring yet (almost have it all cleaned up). My wiring is somewhat "complicated" and can't all be viewed in one pic. But here's a shot of the LED-Wiz that controls all the cabinet lighting (keep in mind I'm using 2 PACLED64s to control the control lighting).
And here's a couple of the strips installed on the marquee and invaders.
Right now they're set up with an audio animation to go with the sounds of each game. But when arzoo gets finished with the new features I'll be able to make game specific animations and different color schemes for audio animations for different games. I'll have a default audio animation for games that I haven't yet made animations for.
CoryBee:
First off, that is freaking awesome! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:
Very very clean wiring job, looks like a ton of work.
You say it blinks and shifts color depending on what sounds are coming from the arcade games? How does that work? If you are playing pac-man does it blink to every Waka-Waka or change colors to blue when you get the power to eat the ghosts? :laugh: That would be awesome! Thanks again for sharing, I love seeing things like this, it makes me want to solder up a storm.
Nephasth:
Thanks. Yep, tons of work. I probably have over 80 hours in the wiring of my cab. LEDBlinky can flash your LEDs whatever colors you want to the sounds of games/music. It's just a few check boxes in the software, super easy. Keep in mind, you need a separate LED controller for cabinet LEDs so they can run independent animations from your controls LEDs.