Author Topic: Translucent Microswitch ButtonsTaking Pre-Orders (Read 78140 times)

pointdablame · « **Reply #80 on:** May 25, 2005, 01:56:29 am »

I actually wouldn't mind seeing a hot pink LED as I've had a few people including my girlfriend ask me to build a fighter stick with pink buttons/joys. Clear buttons + pink LEDs could look awesome.

gl.tter · « **Reply #81 on:** May 25, 2005, 05:56:27 am »

Quote from: shawnzilla on May 24, 2005, 11:20:16 pm

Alrighty, getting all setup on the website (www.fxbuttons.com).

You need to find a better host. That opening picture alone just took 45secs to download, and I'm on broadband.

SOAPboy · « **Reply #82 on:** May 25, 2005, 06:28:21 am »

Quote from: JustMichael on May 19, 2005, 06:18:50 pm

50 clear with switches preferably.

CJK · « **Reply #83 on:** May 25, 2005, 08:05:31 am »

Wow, am I glad I found this web site and this thread! Shawnzilla, I am definitely in for at least 20 of each color, including switches and LEDs.

-- Chris

UndeadMeat · « **Reply #84 on:** May 25, 2005, 09:25:24 am »

I'd be interested in the hot pink LED. What a great way to get my wife to play:

"Here honey, you can play as one of these cute characters in Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo with pink buttons."

Thanks Shawn!

RayB · « **Reply #85 on:** May 25, 2005, 09:28:24 am »

Quote from: gl.tter on May 25, 2005, 05:56:27 am

Quote from: shawnzilla on May 24, 2005, 11:20:16 pm
Alrighty, getting all setup on the website (www.fxbuttons.com).

You need to find a better host.

Chris · « **Reply #86 on:** May 25, 2005, 09:32:53 am »

Quote from: RayB on May 25, 2005, 09:28:24 am

It's not his web-host. What he needs is someone who knows how to make websites. That image is a half-meg! Instead of resizing it in a paint program, he resized it via HTML, which means the entire large photo is still being downloaded (just displayed smaller in the browser).

Shawn: Get Paintshop Pro or other low-cost application. All images should be at 72 dpi, and resized down to the exact pixel dimensions needed for your website. Then you save it as jpeg, quality 7 or 8, optimized palette.

Here, Shawn, I've done it for you:

Tiger-Heli · « **Reply #87 on:** May 25, 2005, 09:34:45 am »

Quote from: RayB on May 25, 2005, 09:28:24 am

Shawn: Get Paintshop Pro or other low-cost application. All images should be at 72 dpi, and resized down to the exact pixel dimensions needed for your website. Then you save it as jpeg, quality 7 or 8, optimized palette.

Irfanview can do this and it's free, if you don't want to wait on RayB again.

shawnzilla · « **Reply #88 on:** May 25, 2005, 12:13:29 pm »

Quote from: Tiger-Heli on May 25, 2005, 09:34:45 am

Quote from: RayB on May 25, 2005, 09:28:24 am
Shawn: Get Paintshop Pro or other low-cost application. All images should be at 72 dpi, and resized down to the exact pixel dimensions needed for your website. Then you save it as jpeg, quality 7 or 8, optimized palette.
Irfanview can do this and it's free, if you don't want to wait on RayB again.

Thanks guys

Remember, I'm not done with the website. That picture is only there as a place marker for me.

shawnzilla · « **Reply #89 on:** May 25, 2005, 12:17:43 pm »

BTW, I took some video of the lit clear button (with red LED) this morning. It came out much better than any of my still pics. I'll post it later.

shawnzilla · « **Reply #90 on:** May 25, 2005, 12:28:42 pm »

Quote from: SOAPboy on May 25, 2005, 06:28:21 am

Quote from: JustMichael on May 19, 2005, 06:18:50 pm
50 clear with switches preferably. Now I will just have to find a way to "frost" them.

super glue

or sand paper on the inside

Or, hand it to your cocker spaniel for a few minutes...a little bit of gnawing ought to frost it up a little.

tetsujin · « **Reply #91 on:** May 25, 2005, 02:15:59 pm »

Quote from: SOAPboy on May 25, 2005, 06:28:21 am

Quote from: JustMichael on May 19, 2005, 06:18:50 pm
50 clear with switches preferably. Now I will just have to find a way to "frost" them.

super glue

or sand paper on the inside

Sand paper on the inside would be tough. Hazing with super glue is a possibility, but when I get mine I want to try acetone. That'll do the job pretty well on various clear plastics, hopefully it'll work for the buttons, too.

shawnzilla · « **Reply #92 on:** May 25, 2005, 04:51:58 pm »

Here's the link for a small movie of the Clear Button with a Red LED. Doesn't quite show the true color, but looks better than most of my still pics. I'll try other colors tonight.

http://home.earthlink.net/~shawnmuller/redled.mpg

Tommy Boy · « **Reply #93 on:** May 25, 2005, 05:16:50 pm »

Dude, it's a movie. I keep waiting for something to happen...press the button or something...

(j/k)

shawnzilla · « **Reply #94 on:** May 25, 2005, 05:34:44 pm »

Quote from: Tommy Boy on May 25, 2005, 05:16:50 pm

Dude, it's a movie. I keep waiting for something to happen...press the button or something...

(j/k)

Didn't you notice? It's button-porn!

*All buttons and leds in this movie are at least 18 years of age.

Scoobie · « **Reply #95 on:** May 25, 2005, 05:43:17 pm »

Quote from: Gozur on May 22, 2005, 09:12:25 pm

I'd be interested to see if we could fashion some sort of player1 player2 buttons using these with the translucents.

-Goz

Any chance these buttons could have "Exit game" or "Pause" showing through?

MrTroy · « **Reply #96 on:** May 25, 2005, 05:46:02 pm »

Oooooh it's glowy!

And yeah.. you could have at least tapped it or something.

Kremmit · « **Reply #97 on:** May 25, 2005, 08:07:23 pm »

Quote from: tetsujin on May 25, 2005, 02:15:59 pm

Quote from: SOAPboy on May 25, 2005, 06:28:21 am
Quote from: JustMichael on May 19, 2005, 06:18:50 pm
50 clear with switches preferably. Now I will just have to find a way to "frost" them.

super glue

or sand paper on the inside

Sand paper on the inside would be tough. Hazing with super glue is a possibility, but when I get mine I want to try acetone. That'll do the job pretty well on various clear plastics, hopefully it'll work for the buttons, too.

They make aerosol spray-on stuff to make regular glass into frosted glass- they sell it at art & craft stores, like Michaels.

albert_c · « **Reply #98 on:** May 25, 2005, 08:58:24 pm »

It's a UFO!!

tommy · « **Reply #99 on:** May 25, 2005, 09:36:12 pm »

Quote from: Kremmit on May 25, 2005, 08:07:23 pm

Quote from: tetsujin on May 25, 2005, 02:15:59 pm
Quote from: SOAPboy on May 25, 2005, 06:28:21 am
Quote from: JustMichael on May 19, 2005, 06:18:50 pm
50 clear with switches preferably.

shawnzilla · « **Reply #100 on:** May 25, 2005, 09:56:51 pm »

For all of you LED junkies....

Clear Button, green LED!

NIVO · « **Reply #101 on:** May 25, 2005, 10:05:50 pm »

Quote

*All buttons and leds in this movie are at least 18 years of age.

dude you been hoarding these forever!! Im gettin mah hammer!!

shawnzilla · « **Reply #102 on:** May 25, 2005, 10:06:30 pm »

P.S. - Ordered LEDs today, I will be offering quite an assortment!

Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow, Hot Pink, UV & White for starters. I'm still thinking about color flashing ones, but haven't decided yet.

Kremmit · « **Reply #103 on:** May 25, 2005, 10:11:21 pm »

Quote from: tommy on May 25, 2005, 09:36:12 pm

Quote from: Kremmit on May 25, 2005, 08:07:23 pm
Quote from: tetsujin on May 25, 2005, 02:15:59 pm
Quote from: SOAPboy on May 25, 2005, 06:28:21 am
Quote from: JustMichael on May 19, 2005, 06:18:50 pm
50 clear with switches preferably. Now I will just have to find a way to "frost" them.

super glue

or sand paper on the inside

Sand paper on the inside would be tough. Hazing with super glue is a possibility, but when I get mine I want to try acetone. That'll do the job pretty well on various clear plastics, hopefully it'll work for the buttons, too.

They make aerosol spray-on stuff to make regular glass into frosted glass- they sell it at art & craft stores, like Michaels.

That spray stuff will come off when pressing the button after time, sandblast it lightly.

I was thinking you'd spray it on the inside, not the outside. This would leave the outside surface silky smooth, and the bezel un-frosted. Though I guess if you wanted, you could try to frost the underside of the bezel, too.

UndeadMeat · « **Reply #104 on:** May 25, 2005, 11:03:10 pm »

Quote from: shawnzilla on May 25, 2005, 09:56:51 pm

For all of you LED junkies....

Clear Button, green LED!

Must... stop... the... drooling...

Tommy Boy · « **Reply #105 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...

shawnzilla · « **Reply #106 on:** May 26, 2005, 08:14:48 am »

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...

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 · « **Reply #107 on:** May 26, 2005, 09:52:17 am »

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 · « **Reply #108 on:** May 27, 2005, 02:06:04 am »

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 · « **Reply #109 on:** May 27, 2005, 06:50:30 am »

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

UndeadMeat · « **Reply #110 on:** May 27, 2005, 10:43:18 am »

I have to say again, WOW! So beautiful! but I agree with richms, I don't really like the auto-cycling LEDs. I prefer single color or RGB ones the are controllable. Keep up the great work Shawnzilla!

-UndeadMeat

Goz · « **Reply #111 on:** May 27, 2005, 11:02:37 am »

It is much cooler to see the lights cycle (action in the movie),but there's no sound, maybe add a soundtrack... jk

Looking forward to adding some more pimp daddyness to one of my cabs.

-Goz

markrvp · « **Reply #112 on:** May 27, 2005, 11:06:56 am »

Quote from: shawnzilla on May 27, 2005, 02:06:04 am

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:

That looks very nice, however I would prefer to have RGB LEDs that are controllable through a separate LED board. That way if you had 7 buttons in attract mode, their sequence would all be in sync.

tetsujin · « **Reply #113 on:** May 27, 2005, 11:22:29 am »

The self-cycling LEDs are great for that demo video, but I wouldn't want them in my cab.

In theory I think it'd be cool to have the externally controllable RGB LEDs like others have mentioned - but in practice it's not a feature I'm prepared to build into my first cabinet. I'm planning on buttons that light a single color, and I'm quite happy with that.

Really, I'm mainly just interested in the buttons with switches. I've been into electronics for long enough that I have places I go when I need to buy LEDs or resistors.

Goz · « **Reply #114 on:** May 27, 2005, 11:33:35 am »

Quote from: tetsujin on May 27, 2005, 11:22:29 am

The self-cycling LEDs are great for that demo video, but I wouldn't want them in my cab.

In theory I think it'd be cool to have the externally controllable RGB LEDs like others have mentioned - but in practice it's not a feature I'm prepared to build into my first cabinet. I'm planning on buttons that light a single color, and I'm quite happy with that.

Really, I'm mainly just interested in the buttons with switches. I've been into electronics for long enough that I have places I go when I need to buy LEDs or resistors.

Think it would be possible to interface with something like this?

X-PANEL If so perhaps it could be mounting inside coin door and if we could get it to work.

-Goz

scooter · « **Reply #115 on:** May 27, 2005, 12:19:35 pm »

Shawnzilla,

Have you actually tried these out in gameplay? The pictures and the buttons look pretty cool, but actually using them in gameplay would be first priority for me.

Thanks for going the extra mile to make this happen. I am really looking forward to getting some.

RayB · « **Reply #116 on:** May 27, 2005, 01:38:42 pm »

Regarding the new video... TOO COOL!
I love how the unlit buttons just "disappear" into the background color. That's ideal for buttons that are not active for a given game. I may have to rethink my color choices!

shawnzilla · « **Reply #117 on:** May 27, 2005, 02:58:06 pm »

They play pretty identical to the Happs buttons that we're all used to, IMHO.

Quote from: scooter on May 27, 2005, 12:19:35 pm

Shawnzilla,

Have you actually tried these out in gameplay?

whammoed · « **Reply #118 on:** May 27, 2005, 03:49:47 pm »

Quote from: shawnzilla on May 27, 2005, 02:58:06 pm

They play pretty identical to the Happs buttons that we're all used to, IMHO.

Quote from: scooter on May 27, 2005, 12:19:35 pm
Shawnzilla,

Have you actually tried these out in gameplay?

epthegeek · « **Reply #119 on:** May 31, 2005, 05:56:42 pm »

Any way to get on a preorder list for these? I'd like to chime in for 10 clear buttons w/ green LEDs & the extra fixin's

Didn't see any kind of a way to pre-order or place an order yet on the fxbuttons.com site, so just checkin'.

Thanks


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