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ScottMcC:

With LEDs and translucent pushbuttons a lot of people are illuminating there buttons.  I was thinking could there be a way to wire the LEDs to fire when a button is pressed?  I

RayB:

One has to ask... why?



ScottMcC:

Basically your saying that you could wire up the LED to an IPAC board with a resistor to step down the volts so that when the encoder puts out a button press signal it fires the LED.
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ScottMcC:

As for why...

Come on, buttons that light up when pushed or lit buttons that change color when pushed!  I think that would look great and make fighting games even more intresting to watch.

cholin:

HEY GREAT IDEA!!!!

Nah, thats really my idea from about 2 years ago, great minds think alike.  Trimoor posted a circuit for me, if i can Ill try to remember it in paint.  Basically, it allowed me to have a switch:  ALL ON, ON, OFF.  All on would put all the lights on.  On would give them power when the button was pushed, or in my case, when the joystick was moved up and arrow pointing up would light.

You basically take your 5v from the ipac, and split it off to an LED... gimme 3 minutes.
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EDIT:  In case this isnt obvious... anything in the red on the one side of the circuit is optional, I just thought it would be nice to have an ALWAYS ON switch too...  that just splits the GND at the microchip... oh crap I messed up the pic.

THE GROUND ON THE LED THING SHOULD BE A +5 NOT A GROUND...  IF YOU WANT TO HOOK IT UP TO GROUND INSTEAD, YOU NEED TO PUT THE CIRCUIT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MICROSWITCH SO ITS COMMONLY GROUNDED.

My bad :)  Dont feel like fixing it...

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