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Translucent Trackball question...
Cameronj:
Groovy Game Gear has their Electric ICE balls that glow well without the above problems, but your graphic image wouldn't be accomplished through that route.
Xiaou2:
Simply cut one of those white plastics cutting boards up.. and place the piece between the LED and the trackball.
That should diffuse the light perfectly.. and still be very much lit up.
You could even embed the led into the plastic, by drilling a hole into it.
KillerArcades:
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 --- Simply cut one of those white plastics cutting boards up.. and place the piece between the LED and the trackball. That should diffuse the light perfectly..
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ehhh,.... I'd stick with what was mentioned above. The plastic from a cutting board would definitely spread the light well - within itself, but that's not going to change how the light interacts with the clear trackball enough to make the tball capture the light properly though, imho. And that type of plastic (if it's like the two white plastic cutting boards we have in our house) will most likely catch most of the light and not pass much of it through like you would need to get the same level of intensity within the tball.
From my experience, you have two options, buy the totally clear ball and have a nice glow on your ceiling that people chuckle at and enjoy for the first 20 minutes, or you can get the "milky white" translucent ball mentioned above and have it glow the way most people envision and it will look great with whatever color LED's you mount. But you're not going to be able to get that stencil light working like you want, because even if you REALLY want that and get a clear tball to do it, think of how much damage you'll do to your friend's retinas every time you have one of them look down the center of that magnifying glass of a ball to look at your cool batman logo (or whatever image).
you know what they say: "With friends like that....."
:laugh:
Xiaou2:
not the case. People have done it already with transparent buttons.
The high intensity LEDs are so bright that even when shining thru the white plastic,
create a strong light source - simular in nature to a typical screw in bulb.
ahofle:
--- Quote from: SKondris on June 28, 2006, 10:00:59 am ---
--- Quote from: Xiaou2 --- Simply cut one of those white plastics cutting boards up.. and place the piece between the LED and the trackball. That should diffuse the light perfectly..
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From my experience, you have two options, buy the totally clear ball and have a nice glow on your ceiling that people chuckle at and enjoy for the first 20 minutes,
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You should really check out this video from the link I mentioned before completely writing off translucent trackball illumination:
http://www.nicemite.com/LightmiteTB/lmtbProto.MPG
Granted it's not available yet, but it demonstrates that it's certainly possible to beautifully illuminate a clear trackball. I personally think the translucent trackballs look much cooler than the frosted ones, but that's just me.