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most certainly will be doing transparent colors.  i haven't checked out the poll on this thing's product page on the KB site in a long time, but it'll be used to pick out the colors.

glad everyone likes the pics   pleased myself.

i don't have a price estimate, but i'm extremely close.  i don't think i'll do these (at first) with new battery contacts, screws, and things like this.  probably just screen covers (the power LED hole is now big enough for a 5mm LED, albeit optional of course, the new covers have a hole this big). 

(just as a note to modders using this case in the future, if you want to use a smaller LED for power, like the original 3mm size,you can coat the inside of the 5mm hole with stuff that responds to the LED.  like, using a UV LED with blacklight paint on the inside of the tube, or sparkle glue for some shimmer.  i tried a piece of aluminum foil because it was there, this even looked cool.  it'll fit a 5mm LED, but if you use something else, experiment with the space in this tube!)

well, actually, screw sets are alright, thats easy to come up with...  (no more tri-wings huh!)

but, i will do new battery contacts and all that down the road, i'm just stretched too thin for them right now, and as of now i've not needed to use kickstarter or pre-orders to get this thing accomplished.  battery contacts would require a debt, and thats last option, always.  although, in the name of speed, the first batch may be pre-orders just so i don't have to save up the lump for it.  once the mould is done, is auto-pilot anyways...  pre-orders freak me out because of bleepbloop selling experience, which were pre-orders at first, then the shipment would arrive and tons of the carts wouldn't work, and it fell back on me of course.  so, very hesitant to take on pre-ordering again, but we'll see.  it may be a must...

so, (maybe) keep an eye out for that???  other blip things are on my mind, just need to approve the revisions to the mould, then its crunch time.

also i'll be doing something for a sticker design contest something for the back sticker.  i have a lot of art planned for this thing, including limited edition runs with pixelart screenprinted on the case (like the original logo and button text, but art!).  get some good artists from this scene, and do small runs of cases with their art. 

probably limited colorways too.  well, most definitely this.

cool!

^ make sure your contact email you used with the order is the one you're checking (this is a problem for me sometimes), and check your spam folder in case they are getting dumped there.

PM is generally a slower way of reaching people, unless its those of use that peruse by here quite often!  notifications are optional...

hope you get a reply soon!

general discussion ¬ off-topic

turn the contrast knob?

other than that, try out some of the stuff that's been mentioned already

more colors soon!  working them out right now   one is pretty unreal...

a few things jump to mind:
-- check batteries
-- you have a failed capacitor(s) (affecting contrast)
-- if the LEDs themselves are changing color (and its not a contrast effect), the LEDs may be burning out.  make sure you soldered to the right places in the tutorial you are following, and if you have a multimeter check it to make sure its not too far off from 5V.
-- or, they may not be getting a solid 5V, and the power fades off after initial power on (again, i'd say a cap problem).  LEDs can change shade when they are dimming or when they are about to burn out (especially then). 

i'd bet you've just got some leaky/failing caps.  even if you've got a DMG mint out of the box, the aluminum electrolytic caps in the DMG are expired.  all of them are.  whacky stuff is bound to start happening to them all without people changing out the caps, if you are visually seeing the fade away like that, caps behave in a similar manner in the way they work, so perhaps its something simple like this.