Thats just nutty!!
Hey nice rig! I’ll get around to the vegas lights thing eventually. lol
Un-freakin-believable… Absolutely positively awesome
Well for the Seimitsu Bubbletop to light up at all you do need to drill a little bit… the threaded nut doesn’t let any light thru, if u look inside a bubbletop theres like a metal cap at the end… plus i used a 3mm led that i wanted to rotate freely so having a little bit of ample room was good that way it wouldn’t tangle up the wiring
Thanks man! Dang your work is inspiring :wow: Thats some crazy combinations =D
Lol, thats gonna be so awesome when thats ready :tup: In the meantime too my next project mod is gonna take me a while too since imma trick it out starting from stock + theres school and such… so yeah~ im not in a rush or anything lol
Okay, now that I’ve gotten my Ark-Eyes and have them all soldiered up, I can ask questions about wiring. I’m having this issue with the wiring on my Ctuthulhu where I am trying to make it so that one light is always on and adds another light on press. I’ve tried it w/o the board with just the VCC and ground and it worked out fine but once I try it out on the board it just shorts it out. Anyone can help me with this issue (I can’t really draw a diagram right now, I don’t remember how I got it set up, but it worked w/o the Ctuthulhu.) I’m not really great w/ this wiring thing, don’t have enough brain cells to realize what is wrong with what I’m doing.
ANYWAYS
The Ark-Eye is amazing so far, THE LIGHTS ARE SO BRIGHT EVEN ON HALF POWER. I also wondering how I should connect my Ctuthulhu to the Master Strike, but the problem above comes first.
Thanks ahead of time, gotta go out and get myself some supplies.
I’m assuming you wired the Arc-Eyes with the Common Power setup? For the color you want on at all times, run the signal to the ground quick disconnect. For the color you want added on button press, run the signal line to the signal quick disconnect. That way, when the button is pressed, ground is connected to the 2nd signal line in addition to the button’s signal, lighting up the 2nd led and mixing the color with the 1st.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g141/Darkdemon8/diagram.jpg
IT works like this, I believe this is common ground setup?
I don’t know how common power would work.
Edit:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g141/Darkdemon8/diagram-1.jpg
How I have it set up right now, not signal coming out since it’d short this setup out
Another question
If I hook my Master Strike on, is the LED wiring the same but just moved onto the Master Strike board? Or is it something completely different?
Sorry for all these nooby questions, I still don’t really have a idea in what I’m doing.
For common power u need to switch the lines… so the lines going to the 3 colors on the bottom go to ground and the one line at the top goes to VCC… along with that the whole layout of the Arc Eyes is switched… its best explained with Purplearm’s diagram in his first post… its not real hard to miss but just to explain it anywayz in a nutshell you need to switch the LED orientation, so the corner notch on the LEDs is facing the top right corner and the colors Red and Blue (all of them on the board) switch places…
anywayz looking at your setup im just wondering why you have power going to ur button when its suppose to be the signal lol and the power (VCC) should only go to the arc eyes for common power setup (which is what you’ll need if u wanna combine continuous lights with button activation)… here, i jacked ur picture and edited it in paint… hopefully that makes more sense…
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh227/TenshiAoi/th_diagram-1.jpg
…in this setup i just used red and green for examples… red is continuous and green is button activation which would make yellow based on the color mixing…
edit:
ok tweaked the same picture again to demonstrate the connection on MS… that is if you’re just using the MS as an LED control board since u already have pcb switching thanks to the Cthulhu…
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh227/TenshiAoi/th_diagram-2.jpg
lol hopefully this helps ya i guess… i would make a better diagram but im kinda lazy at the moment rofl…
***Purplearms, Bencao or anyone else… you guys should check that over just in case lol and see if i explained it correctly… i get the feeling that theres some kinda flaw thats not hitting me right away =/
So what you mean is I need to flip my LED lights so they are common power?
You have to flip more than just the LED. You’ve also got to flip your blue and red resistors as well. Let me know if you come up with a good way to desolder the SMT resistors. I have common power Arc-Eyes when I later came to the conclusion that I needed common ground, and couldn’t figure out how to remove the SMT resistors with the tools I had.
^ yup thats what i meant to say lol… kinda rushed my explanation… what i meant by the colors red and blue switching was that all points labeled as R and B switch there respective places on the board when u use Arc Eyes as common power… so this includes the spots for the resistors and the 3 holes on the bottom now used for the grounds… again, that diagram Purplearms has on his first post explains this perfectly =D
also. on the Cthulhu there is a VCC line you can make use off for the always on color!
if your arceyes are common ground
the grounds all go to one of teh ground pins
your ‘always on’ color can be bundled into one of the VCCs
Cthulhu
http://www.fakesite.com/UPLOADS/cthulhu.png
Chimp
http://www.fakesite.com/UPLOADS/chimp.png
also, if you are running common power, you don’t need to worry about resoldering. just run the other way around and use an inverter.
forget to say that they`re assembled.
Ok I updated the link on the first page =)
updated selectable programs
use HK to cycle through programs
use HP to select active program
- blue only
- green only
- cyan only
- blue + green (throw, focus, taunt)
- green + blue (throw, focus, taunt)
- cyan + blue (throw, focus, taunt)
- cyan + green (throw, focus, taunt)
- combo (blue, green = ex, red = ultra, cyan = throw, focus, taunt)
- combo (blue, cyan = ex, purple = ultra, green = throw, focus, taunt)
- combo (cyan, green = ex, yellow = ultra, blue = throw, focus, taunt)
- OFF
you can create whatever you want though. the above are just my options. also, finally added an external reset for the ATMEGA 
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^Yes, but soooooo inspirational lol =D
thanks!
my intentions, inspirations and goals are typically more hacking than modding
WOW!!! Purty lights!!!
My Arc-Eyes arrived and installed:
No special light tricks implemented here , I just wanted to say a big thanks to both purplearms and bencao74!
The photos do not justice to how deviously effective these little pcbs are.
Thanks guys and keep up the good work!