My 69 LED's mod, backlighted jewel, buttons and more...

[Janneman]

I think some people might find some inspiration in my Gamecube. This is the first forum that I found that actually has a lot of modders :) (people like me)

I've posted my cube already on a Dutch site so I'll just link you to that thread. The pictures are clickable thumnails, some of them have English comments in them.

http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1028852

[ughemachine]

Very nice :D

Explain how you made the super mario bros jewel please :)

[nonzero]

Great mod - bit too bright for me, time to get the :cool: out :D

Going to be doing that button mod to my case as well - the backlighting looks so cool.

[Krille]

Very well done, best gc mod ive seen so far :D

[DeepBlade]

wow! :eek: .... very cool

I have a question, since you look like someone who would know the solution to this..

is there an easy way to add an LED to the original GC fan? I have an LED on the right side of the GC, shinning light to the mesh and inside the GC.. that was easy since I just soldered wires to the LED so it could reach around the corner... but the left side, the fan.. how would i do that? Can i do it without cutting any holes? I would prefer that

[ROFLMyWaffle]

well i acutally have a good idea that im going to be doing... It requires one hole and the 5mm led fits perfectly. Find a bit equivalent to 5 mm. If they're not labeled, i like to start from the smallest and go up but in this case you can reverse em. Let me explain. Take out the fan assembly, take the fan out of it and look on the back side. There's a little divot, most likely from the injection process of the moulding. Find a bit that big and drill it out. Then hot glue your led in that hole. Its the perfect size and when the fans in there you dont see the led, but you see the light protrude from the sides, its a very nice solution.

[ROFLMyWaffle]

Also, nice mod man, 69 is not a small number! :eek: OH YEAH! Where did you get those leds that change colors or how did you get them to change colors? Also, could you please give a tut to the power led changer thing that flips back and forth. Very cool mod.

[gulliver]

Very nice bro. It looks like it's about to take flight - lol.

[Janneman]

I got all my LED's from here:
http://www.world-led.com/?Taal=EN
For the color-changing ones look into the multicolor 5mm section (called RGB diffuse fade).

I used a simple electric circuit to make the alternate blinking in the shader:
http://www.circuitsonline.net/circuits/view/15
Then I drilled 3 holes into the fader. In the center hole I put a non-blinking LED and in the other two on the sides I put the two alternate blinking ones. I took out the original LED of the gamecube.

If you want your to put a LED into your fan, you might as well find yourself a small LED-fan, I can buy then 40mm and 60mm, no 50mm though... 60mm shouldn't be too hard to make fit :)

When I get my full-dvd case this week I'll try making a new jewel and make pic's along the road and try making a tuturial. :)

[cubenoob]

Congrats, you really must know what you are doing. Keep up the good work.

[shangrula]

it's a bit too full on for me but I like the glowing jewel tho :)

[ROFLMyWaffle]

yeah that jewel is super bright. can we get a jpeg of the mario though? :D

[Janneman]

http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/mariojewel.jpg

[ROFLMyWaffle]

w00t thanks!

[ughemachine]

the tut plz ;)

[Janneman]

To make the jewel, you need several things:

- A lot of bright white LED's, preferably 5mm because those are brighter, I used 20, so get yourselves about 25 to be safe :)
- matching resistors for the LED's
- Some plexiglas, I used 3mm thick, get enough to take out a 10cm circle
- (water)sandpaper, highest grid, I used p1200, get some normal grid sandpaper too
- tinfoil or aluminiumtape (better)
- glue, general stuff to glue led's to plexiglas, 1-second glue is not advised I can tell you :)
- some wire
- transparant overheadsheets with color printer
- time, patience and some skill, this is not a 1-day mod!

tools:
- dremel with grinding discs
- optional is a drill press with 5mm or 3mm drills

old pics:
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel1.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel2.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel3.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel4.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel5.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel6.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel7.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel8.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel9.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/jewel10.jpg

newer pics with my new logo-system:
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/GCjewel/slot.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/GCjewel/inside.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/GCjewel/logo.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/GCjewel/insert.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~vrie8319/GCjewel/result.jpg


Now the idea is that you make a disc that gives white light evenly across the surface to illuminate any pictures that you print. To do this you use plexiglas with LED's in it. With sandpaper you diffuse one side of the disc to make the light spread evenly. With aluminiumtape you cover up all the parts to make the light reflect to the place where you need it.

Then the lid needs to be processed. I have a little video of how it should be but I'm out of online diskspace at the moment, i'll post that later. Basicly you make just a see-through hole :). The LED-disc is put in here.

Also the original jewel needs to be processed. You need to take the plexiglas part of the black plastic part. The plexiglas part then needs to be cleared by polishing (there is another thread about that somewhere over here).

For the logoprinting, regard to the text in the pictures :)


I can elaborate details if you want to, first challenge is to get the right stuff :) Getting bright white LED's at an affordable price can be challenging, depends on where you live too.

[ROFLMyWaffle]

Thats cool. Yours is way cooler than my LED mod.

[ROFLMyWaffle]

Originally posted by Janneman
I got all my LED's from here:
http://www.world-led.com/?Taal=EN
For the color-changing ones look into the multicolor 5mm section (called RGB diffuse fade).

I used a simple electric circuit to make the alternate blinking in the shader:
http://www.circuitsonline.net/circuits/view/15
Then I drilled 3 holes into the fader. In the center hole I put a non-blinking LED and in the other two on the sides I put the two alternate blinking ones. I took out the original LED of the gamecube.

If you want your to put a LED into your fan, you might as well find yourself a small LED-fan, I can buy then 40mm and 60mm, no 50mm though... 60mm shouldn't be too hard to make fit :)

When I get my full-dvd case this week I'll try making a new jewel and make pic's along the road and try making a tuturial. :)
First of all, is € a Kroner or what type of currency is it?
Second of all, what language is that circuit diagram in. It looks like dutch, but I'm not sure.

[Janneman]

Uhm... you don't know what a € is?? (or is there something wrong with your fonts)

http://www.irisa.fr/euro/euro-logotype.gif

It's a Euro, you know the new currency in Europe since 2002, worth about 1,35 USD, you'd better have heard of the Euro before or you should start watching some global news sometime...

That diagram is from a Dutch site yes, if you would have looked closely at the world-led.com site you'd have noticed that that is a Dutch site too.

if I need to translate something just ask :)

[ROFLMyWaffle]

I tried to translate the diagram site but some words stayed dutch, or hollish, or whatever its called. And yes, i've heard of a euro, I've just never seen the symbol. It would be nice if you could translate the diagram site, but the world-led is fine. I can understand that. I actually just need to get a color changing LED for my computer. I blew the one in there and need to replace it.

[Janneman]

This is of the basic diagrams of elektronics. The a-stabile multivibrator let swindle two LED's alternatively with a regulable speed.
The diagram works with two transistors which conduct alternatively because the capacitors are unloaded and loaded. The tempo with which this happens depends of the capacity of the capacitors, of R2 and R3 and P1, and also on the load of the transistors.
When the LED's blink too slowly or too rapid, P1 or the capacitors can be adapted. A larger capacity and a higher resistor makes it blink slower.

[ROFLMyWaffle]

Cool. Thanks. i'm still a bit unsure how exactly this circuit works, but I will experiment with it. Now this is what I would do though, I'd make a pass through so only one of the switches in the back for the cube/chip to sense if its open. With the other, I'd make some sort of circuit that would show the normal power led when its closed, but when it opens, it starts this flickering circuit with two red LEDs or something. That'd be cool. :cool:

[gulliver]

Originally posted by ROFLMyWaffle
Cool. Thanks. i'm still a bit unsure how exactly this circuit works, but I will experiment with it. Now this is what I would do though, I'd make a pass through so only one of the switches in the back for the cube/chip to sense if its open. With the other, I'd make some sort of circuit that would show the normal power led when its closed, but when it opens, it starts this flickering circuit with two red LEDs or something. That'd be cool. :cool:

That would be badass! If you start working on it, post your progress as you go along;)

[ROFLMyWaffle]

Ok, but first, I'm growing tired of waiting for the xecuter cases, so i'm doing a full size mod to my case.

[koteshi]

Nice work. But isn't it a little bit too shiny ;-)