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I am looking for some LED lighting ideas for my case (Antec 900). I already have a way of controlling LEDs from my computer, I am just trying to find intresting ways of using this ability. One idea I have it to disconnect the LEDs in my fans from the molex connector & connect them to my PC so I could create running effects (with the LEDs still mounted on the fans).

 

Things available to me:

 

LED fans

Superbright 30cm LED light strip

Some 8

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WOW :O, That mobo is so cool. Those are the built in LEDs :O?

 

U can control almost anything from an Arduino. With some external circuitry anything is possible. I think I should've got one of these instead, they are much more flexible. Even though they have less I/O.

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They're pretty neat. Currently I'm using it with Pure Data Extended, but I want to learn VVVV and Jitter which would be cool.

 

I'm working on some crazy stuff that'll probably never work, but if it one day does I'll make a post about it :P

 

I think the LEDs are built in... it should be simple enough to recreate anyway.

 

Edit: Yes they are:

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It would be easy to recreate, it's just figuring out a way of mounting the LEDs. On that Abit board they are prolly SMT LEDs, so that is obviously not something that I can do to my current mobo. Maybe just a spot of silicone will do it?

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Sounds like a plan :). What I'll do is solder wire to each leg of the LEDs & put heatshrink over the bare wire/leg. Then just put a small piece of double sided to hold them. So, what colour/colours would u recommend for the 'Backlight'?

 

Thanks for the ideas.

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