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A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
drventure:
No pics just cause it's late and I don't have everything hooked up yet.
Buttt.....
Finally got around to wiring up a few LEDs to my LEDWiz and installing LEDBlinky.
Holy cow. Frickin' cool!
Those speaker cones glow with any color imaginable. And all those blinky "fake tealight candle" led's work perfectly.
I'm planning on changing out the LED's that illuminate the two trackballs to ones hooked up to the wiz so I can at least fade and blink them (eventually, I suppose it'd be cool to get milk white trackballs so I could make them glow any color with a couple RGB's.
Anyway, jeez, this'll keep me busy for weeks....
drventure:
I have a problem I thought I'd throw out and see if anyone's got any better ideas for a solution than myself.
I have a logitech flightstick mounted in my CP (yeah, I know, it's a frankenpanel, but it is what it is....)
Anyway, see that gaping ugly hole it sticks through?
I've been trying to come up with some idea for a boot to cover that up.
My first thought was a pretty standard dust washer, but it'd have to be big, so big that it'd bump up against those buttons.
I can't really use the rubber boot that came with the stick because it's not big enough to cover the entire hole.
I was thinking possibly of using the red fabric I used elsewhere on the cab and fashioning my own boot. That's actually the leading idea at this point. It's gotta be a relatively thin material because if it's very thick, it'll cut down on the stick travel
Anyone have any other suggestions?
severdhed:
i'm thinking that a thin fabric boot is probably your best option...how exactly to implement that...i'm not sure
Epyx:
how much clearance do you have at the underside of the circle between the circle and the controller base?
You could leave it a hole and spray the inside wall of the hole black and then fasten a smaller ABS disc (sprayed gold to match the buttons) from underneath since you would require less movement closer to the base of the shaft the diameter would be smaller so looking into the shaft you would see black wall and golden disc below that.
Like this:
Then you could even have a 2nd golden disc that was part of the controller below the 2nd so you would only just see the golden yellow (where you currently see the inner black circle...it would sit just under the permanent disc.
drventure:
Hmm, now something like that just might work. I could even use a nice etched brass plate down there...
Hmm, I like that. Looks like I have some fabrication to do this weekend :)
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