Guide Glowpad Lighter

Well, I suppose you have already seen Glowpads on the Internet, but this is a completely new project. I don´t have my camera now to take photos of my glowpad but nevermind.
I have connected two LEDs and put them in a plexiglass. It´s nothing new,right But I connected those LEDs on my COM port and made a program called "Glowpad Lighter". I made program which can turn your glowpad On and Off. I programmed it in Visual basic. Here are some pics of a program. You can upload your glowpad pic in it, it has a system monitor, you can minimize it to systray etc.

First have a look at scheme:



This is a program when u start it:



This is a dialog which appears when u click on settings:



Just type your picture path in a box and click on a button, and picture will appear always when u start a program.



And something about program:



btw this glowpad picture is not mine, I put it here just to test my program.
You can download a program from this address:

Glowpad Lighter

WARNING: Some motherboards COM port can´t handle current over 20mA, so first check your motherboard specs.
Please report me bugs if you notice any, I didn´t notice them. Please post your future requests here

 

Nice Idea!

 

isnt plexi a bad surface for optical mice? since it reflects and all that

you should place some mousing surface on it

cool idea, if i get leds i may try this

 

Plexi is not good for optical mouses, BUT take some smooth sandpaper and then apply it on the plexy surface and u will get usable pad
I am working on skins for program, you will be able to choose between red, blue, green and yellow skin

 

I´ve been working on a program and made it skinable
You can choose between blue, red, yellow and green color. Download link is same:

http://web.vip.hr/bubba091.vip/Glowpad.zip

There were few minor corrections, I think it will be ok now
And few pics:



This is a dialog for skins:







Please report me if there are any bugs. Do you like it, please tell me

 

For optical mouses you can put a regular mouse pad over the glowpad, but leave a border so that the glow pad creates a border around the mouse pad.

 

Can you take a better pic of the glowpad I cant really see the pic at that angle....

 

I don´t have a camera right now

 

I really like the idea! Maybe in the future you could add fx like flickering, pulsing, etc. I've tried things like that, but they've failed. So unless you build me one , I'm gonna have to stick with the on/off switch

 

heh the pad looks really bad, since theres all those fingerprints

 

It´s not mine glowpad
btw I´ll give flickering and pulsing a try, it´s great idea

 

man i kinda wanna make one, shoulda ordered leds when i ordered my pots and resistors for my lcd, dam

 

Is it possible to use more than one colour? One one each of several channels? If you did 3 (RGB) you could then make red/green/blue/yellow/orange/pink(purple)/white by using combintions of 1/2/3 channels.

Jsut an idea, don't know if it could be done.

 

I get an error when I try to start the app. "Run-time error. Automation error". Do you know what that is?

 

Can you post a screenshot

 

I was actually thinking of something just like this except for usb the other day for my mouse pad.

Is there any way to adapt this to control the power of a specific usb port? I didn't really know where to start looking into it.

Awsome program anyhow!

 

When I open the program, i get this error:



I think Smurphen have the same error.

 

Yes, its the same problem.

I'm on to make my own glowpad app. But I will use the LPT port insted.

 

nice idea buddy. you could also make it turn off when the system goes into standby or screesaver etc.

 

I suppose u have Win98, unfortunately I didn´t test it on Win98