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Modding Have a go at this one!

Discussion in 'Modding' started by acron^, 25 Mar 2003.

  1. acron^

    acron^ ePeen++;

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  2. anion

    anion What's a Dremel?

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    anion, 25 Mar 2003
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  3. Hippo

    Hippo Pre-dates 5.25" Floppies

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    lol my mods get everywhere.

    Actually in that video the circuit is being driven by a function generator, ie im controlling the clock speed manually. When connected to a HDD led header it either goes very slow or fast with the odd medium speed.
     
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  4. Pflumingo

    Pflumingo givem the bird.

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    Looks a lot like the ones around my intake on the PflumingoServer... I've had this posted but I can't remember when (maybe right after I signed on)
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    (yes they spin with the HD activity too... Not a difficult mod, but kinda cool...
     
    Pflumingo, 25 Mar 2003
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  5. Hippo

    Hippo Pre-dates 5.25" Floppies

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    kewl another circular HDD activity meter :rock:

    mebbe we should start a club :lol:

    Its getting harder and harder to do something truly original :(
     
    Hippo, 25 Mar 2003
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  6. DeX

    DeX Mube Codder

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    I'd love to see a vid of that in the dark! :D
     
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  7. CrOaKeR

    CrOaKeR Host warrior 4, Vengence!

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    If you wanted to be original, if a little mad, you could make up around 4 rings of leds that spin from the outside, then spiral onto the next ring, and so on. This could also be linked to activity. :clap:
     
    CrOaKeR, 26 Mar 2003
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  8. olv

    olv he's so bright

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    lol acron^... i posted that in irc after i saw it in that project lol :lol:
     
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  9. Sardien

    Sardien What's a Dremel?

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    very nice!!

    Is there a guide somewhere on how to build it and connect it to your hdd led?

    thanks!

    God Bless & kind Regards,

    Richard :)
     
    Sardien, 26 Mar 2003
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  10. AkujinNoNinjin

    AkujinNoNinjin What's a Dremel?

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    Just a thought - the rainbow LED circuit (Linkie) is a similar set up except it uses the 4029 chip instead of the 4017. For school atm I'm doing a 4017 based version that fades between a red a green and a blue LED. If you replaced the clock input on my circuit with the HDD activity lead you'd get a trio (or more) of LEDs that faded between each other on disk access, and then during low access would pause on a colour. During high access they'd probably go fast enough for the three colours to blend into white.... would probably look very cool, if a little psychadelic lol.
     
    AkujinNoNinjin, 28 Mar 2003
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