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Lighted Buttons - Per Game
Carsten Carlos:
--- Quote ---Check my Illuminated buttons page and you will see that I was able to light a red button, and I wasn't even using the brightest LEDs. As far as I know, black buttons cannot be lit.
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Yep, but it seems that this were all of the most suited colors. Quite some time ago, but I tried blue and green (and black, but of course this didn't work), and they did lit up very very little, even with superbright ones. Maybe orange and yellow will work, too?
Wienerdog:
--- Quote from: DinoRoger on May 09, 2003, 11:07:51 am ---I will be releasing two version. The freebie software and how-to hack the parallel port to control 8 led controls. There again 8 should be plenty. For example for Street Fighter 2 you need to light up the punch button. You will use the same control for punch for the other players also.
The other version I release will be a programmed circuit and can control hundreds of LEDs independently.
I am designing the software/hardware to function both in DOS and Windows Operating Systems (Includin XP because that is what I run).
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You're a good man DR. I can't wait to see your work. I think you have the right approach to this project. I PMed you earlier, but I think you've said everything in this thread.
I know that the type/color of buttons may be limited, but I think this is a cool idea.
CitznFish:
or for the whopping price of $1.00 - 1.49 per button people can switch to the translucent version.
Tekkie:
Interesting idea. Perhaps 2- and 3-color LEDs could even be used (with white buttons) to indicate particular functions. I've done some tinkering with adding LEDs to Happ player start buttons. Check out my journal at http://rjg.dyndns.org/mame for more info.
Russ.
jrshenk:
I think your idea is great and that this Idea could be carried a step further. I have been playing around with making an electric actuator to switch a joystick, like ultimarc's T-Stick, E-Stick or J-stick, between 4-and 8-way modes. Once I get a good actuator scheme it should be pretty easy to use the same batch files and one of the outputs from your LED board to control the actuator's control circuit. This way you would have the correct buttons light up and the joystick would be in the correct opperating mode for each game.