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Tommy Boy:

Shawn, the lit clear buttons look amazing.  I assume the pictures are taken in low light conditions.  How do they look under normal lighting conditions (i.e. not with ambient light off/dimmed)?  I'm not asking for another picture just asking for an opinion based on observation.

I'm thinking I might go the all-clear route but want something that will still look good during the day or with ambient lights switched on...

shawnzilla:


--- Quote from: Tommy Boy on May 26, 2005, 12:05:19 am ---Shawn, the lit clear buttons look amazing.  I assume the pictures are taken in low light conditions.  How do they look under normal lighting conditions (i.e. not with ambient light off/dimmed)?  I'm not asking for another picture just asking for an opinion based on observation.

I'm thinking I might go the all-clear route but want something that will still look good during the day or with ambient lights switched on...

--- End quote ---

They do look amazing when lit up. The movie of the red was taken in mostly low light. The green pic above was taken with all of my lights on in the basement.

So, my opinion is that they look fantastic with ambient light and hypnotizingly awesome with the ambient light off. :)

The colored buttons look fantastic as well both lit and unlit.

RayB:

Looks great, but I was waiting for the light to go off so we can see the difference. That's the whole point of video isn't it? And yeah, you tapping it too.....


shawnzilla:

I took some video this morning of a color flashing LED. This particular LED does a quick cycle of several different colors, then does a slow fade in and out of each color. I put the camera on a tripod this time, so the shaking is gone. Also, I started the video with the LED off.

A very nice effect, IMHO. Do you guys have enough interest in these that if I ordered 100 of them, you might buy them with buttons? I only ask because they are a little more expensive per LED. I can probably clear these to you guys at around $1.25 a pop (which is a fantastic price for these w/resistor for 12V)

Here's the link:

richms:

I would rather have the leds with RGB in them and without the inbuilt cycler (4 wire ones). Someone has made code for a cheap microcontroller to cycle them (Was mentioned in a yahoo group im on) - and if you have the ones that cycle themselves, they will all be flashing on and off by themselves out of sync, making for a messy looking control panel.

This also means that if one of the guys doing the USB interfaced light blinkers gets PWM working in it, you can control the colours of the individual buttons (And hopefully joysticks if that ever gets anywhere)

What would be cooler then having all p1's controls light up whatever colour the character on screen is? - same for P2 - have them flash red when they get punched or whatever.

Self flashing ones just make it look like a cheap xmas decoration


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