anything fun to make with leds?

reptilezs · Rated PG Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

ive got a bunch of leds laying around in all sorts of colors. i havent used them in a while and i want to make somthing with em. you guys got any guides or ideas?

PRpaTi · Rated R Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 89 Location: SI, NY

Start changing the leds of everything you have available... it's pretty fun Smile

HackaX0rus · Posted: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:33:05 Post Subject:

make led cannons inside your case...or make multi colored optical mice.

digweed13 · Rated PG Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Canada

You could use them to make some sort of display that shows current lvls for different parts in your system. (pagefile size, network traffic usage, ram usage, etc, etc, etc.)

Net RAM Page ETC ETC
100% O O O O O
75% O O O O O
50% O O O O O
25% O O O O O
0% O O O O O

Something like that. Just a thought.

Or you can send some to me and i'll take care of them. lol

Digweed

vulcan · Posted: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:57:58 Post Subject:

i did this a while ago, and recently mounted it into my moniter. runs off winamp and the parallel port.

HackaX0rus · Posted: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:41:29 Post Subject:

thats an aweosme mod it would look sick in a bigger scale mounted in the front panel.

advance · Rated PG Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 6

That is sweet, it might be my eyes, but is that lined up straight?

vulcan · Posted: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:20:12 Post Subject:

it's not quite straight. because i had to drill the holes where the speakers were the grill would have disintergrated and i've be left with a big enmpty gap around a few of hte leds - i decided that it wuld be better to have them slightly out (which is only really noticable in the picture) rather than looking ugly.

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

What's a good source to buy LEDs at a reasonable price ($5 each at radio shack is not reasonable). I got my DFI LanParty UT SLI-DR and it has the connectors for the LEDs used in the frontx device but I don't have the frontx panel so I'l thinking I might just make some LEDs work for the boot up stuff which is all I want anyways.

And, on a similar note, has anyone ever made or obtained the infra red device to plug in to your motherboard?

Tech-Daddy · Rated R Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 67 Location: Plano

LSDiodes is an excellent source for all types of LED's

They are the only place that I trust.