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Lighted Buttons - Per Game
Valence:
--- Quote ---I have had no problem lighting up Happs buttons with leds. 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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I did visit you site a few times. My buttons look completely different than your buttons. The bottom of the inside of my buttons are all the way down by the micro switch. Not at the button base lip like yours. I remember going to a web site that was also dealing with lighting them and it said that happs was shipping a new kind of button that was different than
they used to sell that had thicker plastic. His demo of lighting the buttons was the same type as yours. He also went on to say that his design should work on the new buttons also. But it doesn't.
I'm all for lighting them up. I'm all for someone figuring out how to do it well on these "new" buttons. I'm busy fiber glassing right now and haven't
spent the time I need to get it going. I know it's going to involve reducing the thickness though. But thats what my dremel is for. :D
Malachai:
Here's some buttons that may work great for this!
http://www.sunbetty.com.tw/products_disp.asp?cat=1
They look like normal pushbuttons with clear/colored centers. They don't come with lamps or switches :(. I wish this site had some pricing.
b3atmania:
--- Quote from: jrshenk on May 11, 2003, 02:55:54 pm ---shmokes, The only problem with changing from regular to diagional with the E-Stick is that the whole joystick assembly must be rotated by 45 degrees not just the restrictor plate cam. Since the E-Stick uses a threaded body, similar to the way a button to mounts, the nut can be loosened and the assembly rotated. That is why it says the "switch plate" can be rotated for games like Qbert.
Look at what you just wrote: "That is why it says the "switch plate" can be rotated for games like Qbert." Yes, the SWITCH PLATE, not the MOUNTING PLATE. The switch plate is the plate with the microswitches on it, on the bottom of the whole joystick assembly; in other words, it's the plate that the restrictor plate itself is mounted on. It is not the plate that mounts above the CP -- this mounting plate is intended to stay locked tight to the CP at all times. Note the mounting hole pictured at the bottom of the diagram above. The hole has two small notches to either side. These are obviously intended to mate with the two round protrusions on either side of the e-stick's threaded shaft, thus keeping the stick locked in place. The switch plate, however, is mounted on the threaded shaft in such a way that it can be rotated around the shaft from below, like so:
So it would be quite possible to have a system of automatically switching straight to diagonal by some kind of motor etc, while the joystick remains securely mounted to the CP. It may be harder to come up with a system of automatically switching both the switchplate AND the restrictor plate independently though....
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Getting a precise 45 degrees twist is difficult. You can turn it more than 45 degrees... And if you dont turn it al the way through the end of the tread it will not be fastened securely.
I have had many occassion where the 45 degrees shifted position was dislocated slighty. And the following is even worse: in non-diagonal mode (0 degrees) there not much holding the switch plate. It will fall off if you smash a button on the control panel, which happens a lot in frantic Street Fighter II matches. :D
Unless you are prepared to superglue the switchplate it will not hold into position. Its use as a switchable diagonal/orthogonal stick is therefore exaggerated.