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LED-lit coin button -- did I invent something?

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Kremmit:

I want some with the start guys.  My brother's desktop control panel uses clear buttons for coin and start over each player- matching coin and start inserts would spruce it up a bit, and confuse newbies less.

Oh, and a Pause button, too.  I'll bet Tab, Esc, and Enter would be popular as well.

jfunk:

I'm not sure about Tab and Enter..  But if you made 'Pause' and 'Exit', I think there'd be some demand..  Most panels that have 'extra' buttons have those, from what I've seen...

Tiger-Heli:

Nice job!!!

Toonces:


--- Quote from: MikeDeuce on March 13, 2006, 01:48:36 pm ---Here's a couple of the designs I had floating in my head:



The last two didn't really work out because the text is really small to fit in the plunger... and I'm even not sure if I'm allowed to offer the MAME one, but it did cut ok.

I originally wanted them to say "Push to reject" or "1x25, 1 Play" under the 25 cent sign, but the text was starting to get really small and would not have been possible to cut reliably at that size. I guess "push to reject" would have confused first timers, anwyay :)

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25c is the universal language of Arcade. You probably won't find anyone that doesn't know what that means. I'll take 2 in red please :) Awesome work!

Toonces

MikeDeuce:

Thanks again guys, I love the ideas... keep them coming and I'll offer basically anything :)

Came up with a slight variation on the idea, button chips:



It's a vinyl decal on a disc of acrylic that I had machined down to the inner diameter of the plunger. It basically just pops right in and it's ready to go. I spent about the same time shaping the disc as I did trying to get the first decal into the plunger in the initial post.

Here's a shot of it installed:



Any thoughts? Would something like this interest you folks at all? I'll definitely sell the decals alone, but I thought this might interest a those that don't want to risk messing up the decal application inside the plunger. I will also make a version of the decal that is for external application, like my past goodies, since it will achieve nearly the same result. One caveat with the chips is that there is a small hole ~1mm from the machining process. You can see it where the "A" meets the "M" but it isn't very visible, especially with some light behind the button. The 25c ones and various others will not show the hole at all though, because they have vinyl conveniently located over the center of the button.

Is this idea "tired or wired"? :)

Thanks again! I'll get started on cutting in the mean time.
mike

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