I've been trying to research for a design I have and got tired of drawing blanks so I was going to ask you fine people about internally lighting a DMG. And by that I mean not a screen but the gameboy itself. I am half certain that it has been done before I have just not been able to find any regular products that would help me, or any devblogs/tutorials either.
I am thinking of procuring a clearboy to paint on, and allow some of it to still be clear and have a light being shone through it. I have just been unable to find any terribly impressive LED kits or any info on where I would solder the LED (or how considering most generic kits use different kind of wiring and I've just begun my modding hobby)
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http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/5677/ … t-buttons/
PM Sneaky Fat Cat, he might be able to let you know what's what.
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I made these a few years, but unfortunately I only had access to low intensity LEDs, so the result was rather shoddy. You can see that the images are quite grainy. If you use high intensity LEDs, you may want to figure out some way to spread the light so you don't have a point source that blinds the viewer.
You may also want to browse NeX's site for inspiration:
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nitro2k01 wrote:
If you use high intensity LEDs, you may want to figure out some way to spread the light so you don't have a point source that blinds the viewer.
I remember seeing Kitsch saying something about diffusion film for a speaker grill light mod. Could probably work similarly here.
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Using Ryan high grain sand paper like 400-600 you can actually sand the LEDs themselves and it helps to diffuse the light also so you don't have a really sharp point of light. You can also use a finger nail file also which is my favorite to use because it's close to the the grain you need and you have more control with it because most have handles. Lol hope this helps at all.
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Also this site might be useful to someone wanting a cleaner and nicer case lighting:
This stuff is pretty awesome and it's as flexible as string. So you can measure the length you need the. Order just that amount. Also has a separate power source kit you can probably cram into a gameboy. And if you don't want to use the separate power source him they don't pull much power so it probably wouldn't be to hard to wire it to a 5v source on the gameboy pcb.
Also I know someone is working on making a case lighting kit using this stuff but I'm not going to to disclose as to who that is.
Good luck man and again hope this helped.
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Are there any good examples of voltage sources on the inside of a standard gameboy?