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| RandyT:
--- Quote from: RayB on July 07, 2005, 05:06:45 pm ---OK it sounds like the solution here is not in messing with the button, but [as already mentioned before] to use the proper LEDs. Don't use a bright focused LED! --- End quote --- Ray, the thing that is being battled here is tantamount to what one would encounter when attempting to make a piece of window glass glow a certain color. Varying the wattage or surface characteristics of the light bulb behind the window does nothing. At least one surface of the window must be altered to diffuse the light, or the light will just pass through and the glow will never be achieved. RandyT |
| RayB:
In my opionion, you get what you paid for. Shawn did us all a big favor and at a great price. :police: Part of the problem may be shining the light below the barrel rather than inside it. |
| tetsujin:
--- Quote from: RayB on July 07, 2005, 05:27:02 pm ---In my opionion, you get what you paid for. Shawn did us all a big favor and at a great price. --- End quote --- Did anybody say otherwise? I was under the impression that people were generally overjoyed about the FX buttons buttons. There's a lot people can do with these buttons - and that's what this is about - trying to see what we can accomplish. I had been thinking along the lines you were suggesting, about diffusing the light source rather than the button - but I think Randy has an important point, that the look of a "glowing button" is a product of the light at the surface of the button being diffuse. If the light source is diffuse, then it'll look like the light source (behind the button) is glowing, rather than the button itself. But there's all kinds of room for experimentation. Theories are great for direction but in the end it's what people can accomplish with the real thing that counts. It's an exciting time. |
| tristan:
Maybe you could use some sort of fiber optic light source. Any word on those yellow ones? |
| n3rrd:
--- Quote from: quarterback on July 05, 2005, 06:07:36 pm ---If you've got colored buttons, you could get some cheap cold-cathode tubes and run them underneath all the buttons at once. They've got them for cars so they should be able to run off the 12v of your PC. Or, if you have clear buttons, I think they make color changing tubes as well (or maybe those are actually leds) --- End quote --- Just to verify, they do make cold cathode tubes for computers. Where the arcade building community is still, for lack of a better word, "underground", the computer-modders aren't. Things like that caught on fairly quickly and they come with molex connectors. They are actually fairly easy to find at a decent small computer shop, or most online suppliers. For Canadian's looking for computer parts, check out http://www.ncix.com, I built my entire system from that site. Good prices and convenient... |
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