EDIT: New improved, see last post
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A pair of vintage Remote Commanders off ebay:
Rather than re-paint them I decided to sand and polish the text off.
Right, I want a working LED! But how am I going to fit an LED, a 1" wide battery, wires and a microswitch into the cramped space while preserving the movement of all the buttons...?
...by wiring the battery and LED into the existing circuit board and using one of the device's many buttons as the on/off switch!
Actually, I didn't think there was a hope in hell that this was going to work as I know absolutely nothing about electronics...
To my surprise, it worked. And as a bonus it turns out that the button is pressure sensitive, so the harder you press it the brighter the LED glows.
Cramming it all back in there...
I used a segment cut from a green magic marker to firmly attach the two halves together with Super Glue.
The almost finished article. Hopefully I'll be adding the translucent red antenna tomorrow.
I do realise that on screen this LED wasn't lit up, and instead there was a 2nd LED in place of the rectangular button near the top. Does anyone know what kind of LED this was? Was it a rectangular LED? Or a normal LED behind a rectangular 'lens'? Did it have some kind of white frame around it? :confused
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A pair of vintage Remote Commanders off ebay:
Rather than re-paint them I decided to sand and polish the text off.
Right, I want a working LED! But how am I going to fit an LED, a 1" wide battery, wires and a microswitch into the cramped space while preserving the movement of all the buttons...?
...by wiring the battery and LED into the existing circuit board and using one of the device's many buttons as the on/off switch!
Actually, I didn't think there was a hope in hell that this was going to work as I know absolutely nothing about electronics...
To my surprise, it worked. And as a bonus it turns out that the button is pressure sensitive, so the harder you press it the brighter the LED glows.
Cramming it all back in there...
I used a segment cut from a green magic marker to firmly attach the two halves together with Super Glue.
The almost finished article. Hopefully I'll be adding the translucent red antenna tomorrow.
I do realise that on screen this LED wasn't lit up, and instead there was a 2nd LED in place of the rectangular button near the top. Does anyone know what kind of LED this was? Was it a rectangular LED? Or a normal LED behind a rectangular 'lens'? Did it have some kind of white frame around it? :confused
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