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Author Topic: Translucent Microswitch Buttons **www.fxbuttons.com**  (Read 93730 times)

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Price?

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Arent they great!  How much are they as of now?
Didn't he say 4$??? Was i dreaming????

We still haven't worked out price. Now that I've seen them, we're going to discuss production run #s & such. I should be able to answer price questions very soon.

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I hate one-word posts, so I use a smiley:

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I hate one-word posts, so I use a smiley:

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Yes that was a one word post thank you!  ;D
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Shawn, do you know what colors you will be getting? Hopefully you will have at least 4 colors.

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Shawn, do you know what colors you will be getting? Hopefully you will have at least 4 colors.
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Shawn, do you know what colors you will be getting? Hopefully you will have at least 4 colors.

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I vote too for Red, Blue, Yellow, Green. 

Human Gauntlet Player Needs Lit Buttons Badly.

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Dont the first 5 pages have color requests :P

Most important:

-blue
-red
-green
-orange
-clear
-smoked
-thick yellow

Those are the main colors that sell...possibly purple...

* cholin wants 6x blue, 6x red, 2x white(clear?)

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Shawn, do you know what colors you will be getting? Hopefully you will have at least 4 colors.  At least blue, red, yellow, and green. 

Great work and thanks for sticking with this.

I'm definitely going to try for at least 4 - 5 colors. It depends on total price vs. minimum order amount. Since I'm not ever going to order 14,000 of the same color at one time (or even within one year), they have to color mix to achieve the various colors, rather than ordering a dyed color. It requires a little more labor on their part, and the colors will not be exactly the same (although they will be close) from batch to batch (which kind of makes for a cool limited edition thing).

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Shawn, do you know what colors you will be getting? Hopefully you will have at least 4 colors.
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Very nice, I would love to use these for 2 projects in particular.

Some for my neo geo cabinet with red, yellow, green, blue buttons and then ill use em for my Capcom XMEN VS SF cabinet with 2 red , 2 blue , 2 green.

Ill keep my eyes peeled for any more updates shawnzilla , great job man.  :)


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o man.. and I had just about given up on these... no offense shawn.  They really look great.  Please keep us informed, I'll be ordering them once they are available.

Now I just have to decide what projects to use them on... I doubt I can do them all haha
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o man.. and I had just about given up on these... no offense shawn.  They really look great.  Please keep us informed, I'll be ordering them once they are available.

Now I just have to decide what projects to use them on... I doubt I can do them all haha

None taken.  I myself was becoming very skeptical that these would ever see the light of day.

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They will see the light of day, and the light of LEDs.  Im glad these are finally becoming a reality, after making us wait for so long :P  I hate to say it though, if they cost 4 bucks a piece, well, I just cant afford that!

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Can you try it with a single LED and see how it looks?  With 6 LED cannons, I can see a panel getting very expensive very quickly....

We need Nannu to do another run of stick-on player start guys so we can get lighted player start buttons....

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Those look awfully nice.  Dark Red, Dark Blue, & Clear, please!

We don't need stick-on player start guys; we need some die-cut, totally opaque player start guys we can glue on underneath.

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Can you try it with a single LED and see how it looks?  With 6 LED cannons, I can see a panel getting very expensive very quickly....

We need Nannu to do another run of stick-on player start guys so we can get lighted player start buttons....

--Chris

I only used the LED cannon, because that's what I have hooked up right now. I'll do a single led in the next couple of days (I have a really bright one from modsthatglow.com)

As far as pricing, it's going to be completely dependant on my up-front costs. I'm not looking to make a fortune off of these, so I will do my best with price.

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 Gona have to say that Im not that thrilled at the translucency on the test sample.
Its almost opaque.   I was so hoping for a duplicate look to the leaf style traslucents.
 
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 Gona have to say that Im not that thrilled at the translucency on the test sample.
Its almost opaque.   I was so hoping for a duplicate look to the leaf style traslucents.
 
  :'(



Sorry you don't like it. The translucency of the leaf switch buttons is too hard to duplicate in this design for a few reasons, ie. price, polishing & material brittleness.

These buttons seem to be nice and robust. Personally, I'm quite pleased with the results.

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Sorry you don't like it. The translucency of the leaf switch buttons is too hard to duplicate in this design for a few reasons, ie. price, polishing & material brittleness.

I think we should wait until you get a chance to light these with a single LED with the switch attached.
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 Gona have to say that Im not that thrilled at the translucency on the test sample.
Its almost opaque.   I was so hoping for a duplicate look to the leaf style traslucents.
 
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I think the company that was producing the samples felt the same way given their hesitance to even send Shawnzilla the samples originally.

I for one prefer this look to be honest.  I like that the button looks nice unlit, especially compared to translucent leafs.  And once it's lit... well.... for most intents, a lit button is a lit button is a lit button IMO.
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As requested, here are some pics of the button lit up with a single blue led (8,000 - 10,000 mcd).

In this example, I opted to slide the LED in the space above the microswitch (in reality, you'd have to drill a hole to accomplish this without hindering the plunger).  Much like lighting a trackball, I've found that by moving the LED around, you can change the focus of the button glow.

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As requested, here are some pics of the button lit up with a single blue led (8,000 - 10,000 mcd).

Thanks for those.  Seems quite nice actually - as was said, the button also looks nice unlit.

How's the button action, and how solid is the design/material?

Looking forward to final price and colours  :).
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As requested, here are some pics of the button lit up with a single blue led (8,000 - 10,000 mcd).

Thanks for those.  Seems quite nice actually - as was said, the button also looks nice unlit.

How's the button action, and how solid is the design/material?

Looking forward to final price and colours  :).
:) Thank you! The feel/material seems pretty much identical to the normal Happs pushbuttons. I can tell no difference in button action between these and the solid Happs buttons.

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that really looks great.  I'd want my buttons to have a subtle glow, not one of those "blind you while playing" glows, and it seems like these buttons will work just fine for that.  I can't wait to get a final quote on prices.  I can't wait to see one in person.
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i know it's already been said, but i'm kinda saddened too that they don't mimic the translucent look of leaf switches.

p.s.  i'm not looking for a response to this, so don't argue with me, just wanted to state what i think.  good lck on the buttons though.  sounds like you could order some pretty large amounts and expect to sell them all within a couple years.  the only problem is the money up front.

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i know it's already been said, but i'm kinda saddened too that they don't mimic the translucent look of leaf switches.

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just to check are these the same size as a happs push button. so if one wanted to switch their buttons over they could?
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Shawn,

I can see why they didn't want to bother sending them to you.  The material seems to be almost clear in the center of the plunger, then goes almost opaque at the thicker parts.  Not that there is particularly anything wrong with the appearance, it's probably just not very close to what you sent them as a sample.

Something you may want to try:

Get some white Krylon "Fusion" paint.  Spray some in a bottle cap, or similar receptacle, until you get a puddle in there.  Pour out a few drops into the plunger and swish it around until coats nice and even, then dump out the rest (don't let a puddle dry in there...too thick)

This will give you the diffusion you need, where you need it, which is at the back surface of the button rather than the surface of the LED.

You could also try to find some thin (10mil or so) white plastic film and cut a circle to fit inside the plunger.

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Not trying to rain on the party either, but I'm not sure what these gain for $4 over the $1.50 buttons that Centsible sells in the beginning of the thread that actually do look like transparent leafs (except that I think those are convex, not concave).
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 Well, the feel of the button and a slightly better color choice.. but ugg...

 The problem here is the design of the button.   If the microswitch holder was not the kida where you have to spread it open to pop the micro it.. then they could use the more translucent plastics.

 If the buttons were a hair longer - then one could add a seperate microswitch holder that slides over the threaded button bottom... and is secured by the pressure from the buttom button nut.

 Obviously, this would need a new part made... as well as adding to the costs all arround.

  The cool wico internal button structure is sadly missing as well.   I liked that pattern, and it helped to diffuse the light.   If anything.. you may at least want to make the top part of the button (on the inside)  thicker.   This may help to diffuse the dirrect led light rays.


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Hey I think the pics in the panel look perty nice.  Yes its not the same a translucent leaf buttons but so what.  They look great to me.

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Hey I think the pics in the panel look perty nice.
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