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cholin:
After seeing all the posibilities of LED lighting, I thought of something.  This may have already been done, but it resembles the idea of DDR.  I want to drill a small hole in my control panel, under the overlay, and put some LEDs in there right by the joysticks.  Around the joystick, there are arrows.  These arrows will light up during gameplay.  What I wanted to do is make a switch where you have three options: On, Game and Off.  On will light all the LEDs at all times.  Off will turn them off.  Game will make it so if you push up on the joystick, the UP arrow will light.

What do you guys think?  I will also be putting a rope-light and lighted 1 + 2 player START buttons on too.

fastredpacman:
Sounds pretty cool!! ;D

ShinAce:
Nothing crazy about it. You could do it using just about any type of 2-input digital gate.
I'd go with NAND gates myself. What you do is short the first input of each gate together, and that's your control. 0 volts on that line will cause all lights to light up. 5 volts will light them when the button is pressed. To turn them all off permanently though, would require some extra steps. A multiplexer, or something along those lines. It doesn't seem worth it to me.

What you need to do is choose which 2 setups you want. Because all 3 will take some serious man hours to implement.

cholin:
Well getting all those components is much more expensive than my origional plan, which I already have worked out.  It doesnt require any gates, just common knowledge and switches, oh and quite a bit of wire.

ShinAce:
Exactly, switches. How many switches are you going to use?

I'd have 1 switch, and about 2 IC's. Which means I can do it for under 5$.

There's always dip switches, but that's not my style.

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