Make: Monome x Arcade Buttons, LED Wiring + First Test
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The LED wiring is complete and everything is working! Here’s the first all-on test.
And here’s how pretty the final wiring looks! I still am going to tie everything up but I think it ended up really clean. Input boards on the left, output boards on the right. I tried a few wiring harnesses before I settled and duplicated. I think this helped make everything really clean and reliable (everything worked the first time!).
I already got a scrolling text monome program working with it and am in the process of writing a Max/Msp object to make it monome compatible (http://monome.org/). I’ll try to take some video soon and also some pics of the final casing once I fiinsh that.
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12:39 pm on August 21st, 2009
emosewa!
3:10 am on September 11th, 2009
Hello,
Beautifull!
What kinf of LED did you use and how diod you fix them (picture please) ?
Regards
Pierre
8:57 am on September 11th, 2009
Thanks Pierre!
Follow this link for how to mount LEDs in arcade buttons.
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Lighting_Microswitch_Buttons
You want to buy super bright LEDs if you are using normal white HAPP buttons. So, LEDs with of mcd rating of over 10,000. You can buy these on ebay on the cheap: just search “led mcd”.
7:14 am on September 14th, 2009
Do you have a schema of the circuits and maybe a parts list? I’ve created something similar, and must say this really rocks! It didn’t came in my mind that you could just put LEDs into the buttons. How bright are day during normal daylight?
I created a 16×16 matrix (some photos)
http://www.collectivecreative.org//modules/image/uploaded_images/1.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/94/233059985_d956feecf7_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/233060046_955225e39c_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/93/233060173_c6d94471ef_o.jpg
Greetings Roxlu