tobearu - you have to solder to the led board to get it to do anything useful. Assembly isn’t any harder than installation tbh. I have faith in you!
I expect LizardLick may be offering assembled ones when they get added to the site.
Aww, watch my video. It’s honestly not that hard. It took me all of 15 minutes to do, plus a little time for camera’s sake.
I just figured that I wouldn’t mind paying a bit extra for a more professional job than I can probably manage. But I guess I’ll take the plunge and give it a shot myself. Can always count on you guys to be inspirational 
Promise, it’s not hard. Just get thin solder, don’t be like me. Haha.
HUGE THANKS TO TOODLES FOR GETTING THIS BOARD TO ME.
Okay, now with that out of the way, This was really easy to wire up, with thanks to Nerrage’s tutorial on youtube, I wanted to make sure everything was good.
Used some LED’s I got at frys. Yay for paying 18+ for LED’s that are white haha.
Anyways, I was scared which LED’s to use as I didn’t want to risk the controller losing power or anything, but it works flawlessly and it looks great.
I may have to order more of these boards and offer that as a service too.
I’m still pretty new to all this so I got a quick question for you guys…
I understand the Atmel microcontroller is basically the “brains” for deciding what happens and when, is there a way to connect to it so that we can check out or modify the programming on it ourselves in case we come up with new ideas or modes? I’m guessing we would need a “separate” setup to basically program it on, then plug it back in to the IC socket on the board?
You could certainly use it with code that’s entirely your own if you’d like, but you can’t tweak what’s already on it. You could pop in a new chip with a internal oscillator fuses set and an arduino bootloader, and use an FTDI cable to connect to the unused spots for header pins on the end:
SparkFun Electronics - FTDI Cable 5V
Or use an AVR Dragon to control the board via DebugWire until you get the code finalized for flashing.
But please understand that I won’t be helping or supporting either of those. If you want to get into embedded development, there are a lot easier ways to go about it. I’d suggest you start here:
Arduino Tutorial - Learn electronics and microcontrollers using Arduino!
I see. That’s cool. Maybe if i get more advanced into it I’ll look into that, just wrapping my head around the basics for the moment.
Yea, I’ve been going through those exact tutorials and having a blast! I really like the ability to use the Arduino’s serial port to help debug stuff, it’s proven quite invaluable.
I just ordered Toodles board. :tup:
It should be here inn a few days, and hopefully this weekend I’l lget to put some work in with it. Any recommendations on where to buy LED/Resistors that will work well?
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Where can I get ARC Eyes? The only place I’ve seen them was Germany or something. Is there an American store with them?
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Pololu Robotics and Electronics
pretty fast shipping no problem with the LED’s i bought since i couldn’t find the 3mm led color i wanted at fry’s or the shack.
purplearms lives in Toronto, so shipping can take a while. Also, when you’re wiring it, disregard the “light up on activation, hook the ground to signal,” you want ground to be attached to ground, and then the color (Or colors, remember, since it’s RGB, you can also attain CMY and White by connecting all three wires) you want your button to light up as to the terminal on the FGWidget instead of the VCC line.
I’m using a 9v PP3 battery (was lying around) with 20 Ohm resistors for the LEDs, I’m wondering if the logic chip supports that kind of voltage because I’m having a few problems.
My problem is that the A button will light up randomly when pressing other buttons, all of the other buttons seem to work ok except for the A button.
9v is outside the range for the chip. If should work fine directly connected to the power from a wired console connection.
Thanks alot, ill try that now.
So I purchased Toodles LED board and hope to start working on it this week. However I’m missing a couple things namely the LEDs. I’ve been looking into which color, which options, where to get them from etc, and while reading about ARC Eye - I started wondering - what have people had the most success with? I’m currently looking at Bright white 3000 (lumens?) @ 20mA @ 3.4V (fwd voltage). Due to how I have my buttons setup with the PS-14-KN (clear) rims with the normal black screw-in button plunger, I’m debating how many LEDs to actually use per button. I was thinking of using up to 3 - though the wiring would be a bit messy, but I was concerned about what the board was actually designed to handle. Any advice on physical location of LEDs and how many LEDs? As well has there been a general consensus with regards to light brigfhtness and colors? I’m concerned that reds will look orange, oranges will look yellow, and so-on. My stick is a mirror (thanx Art), and I currnetly have no color outside of 'mirror/black/white), with no asperations of adding any other colors.
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I could go into the details of each part of that question, but it’d take forever. How about instead you paypal me $14 ($18 if you use 8 play buttons) and guinea pig something easier. I’ve got beta KNserts; similar idea to the Arc-eyes, but single chanel (white) instead of RGB.
I’m cool for that…never done a straight paypal though, PM me the name to send info too…
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