wow.  thats pretty stunning work!

(or you could get in touch with me about having a run of buttons made in those two colors, and not destroy your controllers...  i'm more than open to custom orders in bulk, might be cheaper too)

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Tsuki wrote:
Tsuki wrote:

Hi, thanks for your fast reply! I think I'll wait for this backlight, can you just give me some details, like how is the battery life with this backlight compared to "classic" backlight? Is that hard to install? (I haven't soldered something since a long time, like 10 years ago at school), do you have pics with both EL Backlight and another backlit so I can see the difference? Finaly I guess you can only have one color with this backlight, am I wrong? Thanks in advance!

Can you please don't skip my post? T_T


um.

not really sure on the diff. in battery length, i haven't noticed any substantial drain.  i measured the current on these a while ago, it was very minimal but i don't remember exactly what.

its easier to install that the other backlights methinks.  less involved...

nope, no pics.  i'll wait for the parts, sometimes they change slightly from samples because samples are hand made.

you can have multiple colors by adding sheets of color film above the light source.  the light itself will be whitish, then you just add a color filter.  but, for now, just while.  some colors aren't even worth doing because they're washed out, and the polarization film adds a bluish tent and it throws it off.

i'll have all the details like this when its all done wink

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minimal in terms of EL tech...  i spent a while on the resistor values to get minimal hum.

it doesn't affect prosound output, didn't seem to the other, but i'll do more testing with actual equipment and not my ear at some point.

i guess i should mention, the PCB is designed with very small panels in mind, so unlike in the past when i'd use (or others) bigger inverters, this is a pretty small PCB 'stick'.  no overkill to it so less hum than the mod in the past for sure.

thanks so much!

egr wrote:

Pretty much all of Pixelh8's stuff -- http://gbdev.gg8.se/files/musictools/PixelH8/

curious about that one, those ROMs have compatibility errors with most flash carts.  all of those except EPROM-based ones, i believe...  unless someone knows a trick with them.

if anybody tries this let me know if it works or not with the PixelH8 stuff...

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yes, i am, i'm finalizing the order for the last part now in fact.  the circuit is done, here, assembled, ready.  the panels are the only part not done, but i've confirmed the samples. 

shouldn't be long wink

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+1 someonesomewhere

SAMWAVE wrote:

Can an LSDJMC2 sync LSDJ to a DAW for example such as Ableton, Fruity Loops, Renoise etc...?

yup, sure can

here's the project page

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+1 Comptroller

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canned babies

TraceKaiser wrote:

What about those Afterburner kits that they used to sell for a really short while?

http://www.goldenshop.com.hk/AI-trad/gba/backlit.htm

GBA backlight kits

Does nobody remember these!?!?

they were frontlight, as were the later mash-mods kits

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+1 kineticturtle

i always thought ms. pinky + arduinoboy would be a lot of fun to play around with...  just never got ms. pinky...

ms. pinky

Subway Sonicbeat wrote:

So, I've got an Android phone, there is any news on the music making apps side? Couldn't find shit about it.

(got a cheap chinese tablet)

wondering the same thing...  i've found most the stuff listed here. 

'music grid' was fun for about 5 minutes...

nanoloop is working.  1.6.  thats good.

anyone discover some great android apps for the music making?  or anything relevant?

the only kinds i'm aware of are the nintendo manufactured kinds, the DMG-04 and DMG-07 accessories...  those are the cables which have the internal 5V.