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Chris:


--- Quote from: SKondris on August 10, 2006, 12:17:55 am ---I found some nice nylon hose at homedepot that was roughly the right size, just a tad on the large size as far as the diameter was concerned, but close enough and thick enough that I had no trouble getting the buttons nut to hold it on nice and secure.

This 'nylon hose' (I'm fairly certain it's nylon anyway) is like a semi-maliable clear plastic tube/water hose that I used my PVC cutters to cut into rings.

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Wow, what a great idea!!!

I was going to cut rings out of a nylon cutting board.. was NOT looking forward to that task!  This sounds so much easier!

I have the Happ translucent buttons and colored LED's; right now I'm still debating on the implementation: do I just light them all up or go to the effort of doing a lighting controller?



Rudi:


I plan on using LED-wiz, but I have to do more research.  Right now I have to see if Johnny 5 will not only display which buttons/joystick directions are used in a game, but if it can tell LED-wiz to only light them up.  Also, I might need 2 LED-wiz devices.  Will Johnny 5 control 2 at a time?
This is what I've got to figure out.

About the collars for the LEDs.  I found a company that makes plastic disks.  They've got a stock item that may be perfect.  They're sending me a sample so I can test it.  If it works out it will be a pre-made solution, just drill the holes for the LEDs and that's it.  I'll post my results when I get the sample.  Oh, and they would cost about $.40 or $.45 each.

-Rudi


horseboy:


--- Quote from: Rudi on August 10, 2006, 01:15:52 pm ---
I plan on using LED-wiz, but I have to do more research.  Right now I have to see if Johnny 5 will not only display which buttons/joystick directions are used in a game, but if it can tell LED-wiz to only light them up. 

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I am not sure how you would light up joystick directions, but as for buttons... that is the plan.


--- Quote from: Rudi on August 10, 2006, 01:15:52 pm ---
 Also, I might need 2 LED-wiz devices.  Will Johnny 5 control 2 at a time?

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Theoretically it should, but he doesn't have 2 to test.

KillerArcades:

Well, I'm not sure if Johnny will do that or not yet, but I know that PowerMAME does all that, and I think it even handles multiple LED-WIZ's now.

I didn't really dig the final results that I got out of it, apparently, not all of the rom-control info was 100% - or I just couldn't get my LED cfg files correct, or something, because I didn't seem to get results that were 100%, etc.

I ended up just having mine start up with an animation (running a single LED-WIZ) and then just stay on the whole time, and not illuminating various control setups, etc.

But, I do know from my research, that Yes, you can do the joystick directions as well. Read up a bit in the PowerMAME forum and you'll learn about everything you can do, etc.

Good luck!

PLEASE let us know about that pre-fab disc, that would be perfect!


NickG:


--- Quote from: Rudi on August 07, 2006, 01:03:53 pm ---
I'm planning my next project, a four player upright.  I REALLY like the Neon Mame, but don't want to create a knock-off.  I'm thinking of using different colored buttons for each player, but ...

Thanks,
-Rudi

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One idea is to mix and match only two colors. green/blue example:
player one has solid blues
player two has solid greens
player three has blue pushes inside green rings
player four has green pushes inside blue rings
This may look more like a fancy dominoes set than a buncha yummy skittles.
Another school of thought is to mix in definition from your cpo with more neutral shades with parts of buttons in black, white, clear, etc.



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