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Title: Using LED's on CP
Post by: Matt Berry on November 11, 2004, 06:30:12 pm: I have a bunch of LEDs that I could use on my CP, and I'm trying to think up a few ways I could use them / Incorporate them into my design. I would like to see what some of you did, and what are the most typical uses for the LED's?
Title: Re:Using LED's on CP
Post by: Witchboard on November 11, 2004, 06:35:09 pm: I would think the common use of including LEDs on control panels would be support for the games that flash 1/2 player when credits allow. Also things like the van indicator on Spy Hunter.
Title: Re:Using LED's on CP
Post by: sac01 on November 11, 2004, 07:04:32 pm: I just put two jumbo red (radio shack) led's inside my regular white p1 and p2 start buttons.
Alot of games don't use the keyboard leds at all.. but some of the old school games like most of the pacman types as well as the old atari ones do.

sac
Title: Re:Using LED's on CP
Post by: Jabba on November 11, 2004, 08:57:24 pm: You could do a Christmas theme control panel... ;D
Title: Re:Using LED's on CP
Post by: pocketbikez on November 11, 2004, 11:19:09 pm: I wired the keyboard num lock-caps lock-scroll lock leds to three radioshack bolt-type leds and mounted them into the top face of a trigger joystick.
(http://netbox.home.mindspring.com/dot/joyled.jpg)

http://netbox.home.mindspring.com/dot/joyled.html (http://netbox.home.mindspring.com/dot/joyled.html)

Discs-of-Tronathon Cab (http://netbox.home.mindspring.com/dot/index.html)
Title: Re:Using LED's on CP
Post by: Matt Berry on November 12, 2004, 09:54:09 am: Quote from: jabba on November 11, 2004, 08:57:24 pm
You could do a Christmas theme control panel... ;D

:) Lol, hopefully the neighbors don't complain when I still have them on in june ;)

The Leds I have are all 10mm and are Red, green, and yellow/orange. There have been some interesting ideas so far, keep them coming
Title: Re:Using LED's on CP
Post by: rdagger on November 12, 2004, 12:19:28 pm: I placed RGB LED's in 2 Wico illuminated push buttons and built a circuit to cycle through the spectrum.