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

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/...ssages/1028852

Very nice

Explain how you made the super mario bros jewel please

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

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

Very well done, best gc mod ive seen so far

wow! .... 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

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.

Also, nice mod man, 69 is not a small number! 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

w00t thanks!

the tut plz