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Lighted Buttons - Per Game
shmokes:
Uh oh! It might not work for me. Not all of my LED's will be green ;D
DinoRoger:
You choose which LED lights you want on or off and the application will create a batch file that will talk with the hardware to turn the lights on or off. You use a front end that allows the launching of an EXE/BAT/COM file before the rom gets loaded (this is where you specify the batch file). For example GLAUNCH front end allows you to speficy a file to run and can be customized differntly for every game.
My kit when finished will include the hardware that plugs into the PC (Serial), Instructions if using non 5V LEDs, and the software. You get to choose what color of LED and type to use as long as it is 5V or less.
PS: I know you were joking about green. I hope. ;D
Xiaou2:
I think this is a step in a good direction... though... I dont think Id need to light up anything with low light led's.
If anything... the superbright leds could be made to do some cool lighting tricks.
I think going USB would be better than serial though. Im suprised that motherboards still have serial ports on them... and surely they will probably dissapear someday.
I was wondering if you might consider makeing a USB device that can control more than just lights. Id love to make a 'mini' pinball machine - that is about 1ft * 2ft... using a smaller ball..ect. Larger ones take up too much space... cost too much... and are a nightmare to repair.
Would be the ultimate if you could make a mini pinball that you can both custom build... and then create custom sound fx, music, and animations that are displayed on your pc monitor (instead of the usual led based screens).
Imagine being able to recreate several of your favorite pins in mini scale... and be able to store like 20 of them in the same space a normal pinball would eat up. Its would also be small enuff to easily take with you.
... dream
DinoRoger:
You can always buy a USB to serial adapter. My electronic skills are currently limited to serial/parrallel, but I will look into USB.
M-80:
I might have missed this while excitedly reading through, but can you test which LED is which? Like you click on the icons of each of the LEDs and the LED in the cabinet blinks or lights up? Just so you know which is where. And I was going to ask if this would work with the Num/Caps/Scroll lights on the iPac, but you're circumventing that obviously. ;) And it would certainly allow for the original number of lights on each game. Man, this really is a good idea. Just make sure the common LEDs are coordinated so you don't have blinking 1 Player Start marquees. LOL As soon as it goes on the market I'll probably buy one. This will certainly answer all my questions about LEDs in one fell swoop. Yeah, consider a USB option. That would rock for CPs that have a USB hub integrated. You'd only need one USB cord then for the CP. :D