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Well we don't sell them. Somebody just gave us an idea that we should sell the kit and we might do that in the future. It's just Dan's mod and I am just building all the electronics. If you would like to include RGBs in your mod I would be happy to help you.
If you really would like one, we can build you one, but we would have to figure out a price and how long it would take to make. -after all, we are still building the prototype.
-Update on the project.
Sorry I don't have any pics for you of this work, I forgot my camera at home. :(
I'll try and take some pics tomorrow and update this post with the images.
I frosted all 10 led's with a file to help diffuse the light. They look much better!
Gediminas also finished wiring all the led's to the board. and They look kick ass, and very bright!
I did some more work on the interface too.
here is what it looks like now.
You can see that I added an Icon for the program at the top left. I also removed the minimize and maximize buttons. and I added a color box to show what color was selected.
The right side shows the color selector box that pops up when you click the color button. I set the Effect speed slider to be greyed out when Constant on or Off is checked for the Lighting effect.
I also configured it to run as an Icon in the lower right and not as an open program in the task bar. That way its always running, but somewhat in the background. Lastly I made the Large XPS Image a link to a "Info" window that says what version, date, and thanks to my friends that have helped me figure all this out.
Tonight I had to modify a usb to serial controller since the one I bought did not work. I'll have to rma that baby back as it was $20.
Again, I'll take some pics tomorrow at work and get some uploaded, I'll also get some video done too.
Later,
Is there any way to control it without the software? Like with a different micro controller on the board? That way, all the user has to do is supply power. Maybe have a switch to change between different functions (think flashy Christmas lights). I would LOVE to implement this setup in my truck... to replace my dome light of course.
Oh yes that's completely possible. In our case we will need computer software just to change a setting. It will be enough just to supply the power and it will remember what was the last setting selected before shutting off and will keep doing that until the user launches the software and changes the setting. It's actually a lot easier to have a button which changes the modes. Also there could be 3 sliders which adjust the color. Piece of cake. Then you would need no external software and everything would be done by the same chip.
Looking forward to seeing the video.
Today I got some more pics of the board and led's.
This is a shot of the frosted led's.
and some of the wiring on the led's.
Here is the circuit board with some of the components and led's wired up.
Here is the video of the color changing effect. :banana:
WOOOT!!! That looks sweet mate, fantastic job.
Like a x-mas tree:D
great job you have done!
This is going to be sweet mod:up:
I'm done with my part of the mod. Everything works great. Windows interface is also done. We had it nicely working during the day. I also mounted everything into the tiny box and everything is awesome!! I love how it turned out. Dan is playing bowling tonight so expect a long worklog with lots of pictures and videos posted tomorrow.
