Hi all,

I did today successfully upgrade my Empeg MK2 with the Backlight Buttons from Brian! I did some pictures during the upgrade. They are under: www.crazymelki.com

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Can't wait 'till i get my hands on a set! Looks marvelous!

\\Kaare

Nice photos. Congratulations!

Thanks! It was really tricky to upgrade it!

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Is one of your LEDs missing on the knob?

No why? There are three 3 SMD LED's! It's maybe my camera...

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oh I thought there were four.. Look at the pic of the knob - does it not look like there should be another though? Still it looks good..

This is not possible to put four because the display is to near to the knob bar!

Actually, I believe it was smu who modified the design to fit four.

Um.... actually it was me Here Anything is possible!

The discussion for that particular topic is here with the pics on the bottom of the previous page. Tony Fabris also did some crazy S#@! in which he desoldered all the LED bit's and stuffed all the pieces loosly (while still connected together) inside a clear plastic tube and wrapped it around his volume knob to distribute the light more evenly.... Cool..... Still waiting for pics of that but he describes his procedure a little more thoroughly than this on the link provided.

Still waiting for pics of that

Well, it looks kind of sloppy with the faceplate off. That's why I'm not posting pics. In the green-backlit shot on DarkStorm's front page, you can clearly see part of the shrink tubing to the right of the IRDA sensor.

Yeah... but you succeeded right? I'll try to get pics of mine up cause it's sloppy as hell! You can barely see the resistors from all the solder!

All right. If you show me yours, I'll show you mine.

Um.... I'm kinda shy... geez... in front of all these people??

OK

I'll see if I can't get a decent pic with my semi broken digital camera tonight after work, any opinion on a good replacement digital camera in the 300 dollar range?

I just picked up a Minolta Dimage X. It is small as hell and takes excellent pics at 1600x1200. 2 mega pixel and 3x optical zoom. Got it for $352 shipped.

The Canon S200 should be out soon. It should be a little less money than the Dimage X.

EDIT: I bought it here. They had the lowest price.

these guys have it for 318 . I was looking at a nikon cool pix 880.... But I like the size on that Dimage...

Was looking at the pics, and was wondering, what's that in pic #41? A souped-up Clio? maybe a 2.0 16V with Impreza Turbo-like wheels? Looks impressive, anyway.

Yeep, it's my Clio Sport! The wheels are from Power Tech (8x17").

Here ya go!

And lit

Sorry for the blur on these pics, as I mentioned above my digital camera just isn't what it used to be since I busted the flash on it.

Beautiful car. Is it "that" good? I mean, I've got a pair of friends who own two Clio Williams , really awesome 90's cars... Does the new Clio Sport live up to their "parents"?
Anyway, congrats. Very nice car, even an american could like such car (nothing personal, folks, but there's something about big cars that's not right... then it may be just me).

Thanks! Yes I like it and it's really live up to their parents.! I like compact cars! So I am thinking about to buy a Mini Cooper S. But the Mini is very heavy. I need 40 PS more in the Mini to have the same PS/Kg.

I didn't had any pics on my website from my car. But I did quick some thumbs...You can go straight to http://www.crazymelki.com/clio/index.html .There are some pics form last year....Not sooo cool!

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Crazy cool! Yeep, everything is possible!

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Okay, then, here is mine. Several posts coming up...

Here is the very-ugly-looking trick with the loose LEDs in the clear shrink tubing. To the right is another section of shrink tubing that houses the transitor.

Next, I have a cut-out piece of white translucent plastic from a vacu-formed package. This diffuses the light significantly.

Next, I use black tape on the back side of the lens to block the overspill from all the light under the lens.

Note that on the Smoke lens, if you have fingerprints on the sticky side of the black tape, they will show very clearly. So I had to go to great pains to make sure that my fingers did not touch the back side of the black tape during the application. Since I can't slice the tape with the X-acto knife while it's on the lens (don't want to make score marks on the lens), this is actually pretty difficult.

Also note that I leave a notch for the IR sensor and the standby LED. Don't bother with a notch for the IRDA transceiver since I don't use IRDA.

This is what the tape, diffuser, and repositioned LEDs look like all together.

And the knob in place, looking much more diffused and even than before. Still not perfect, when viewed from an off-angle, it still has "dead spots", but it's much better now.



Man, can Hugo Weaving GLARE or what? I think that's why they hire him for these movies, he always looks like he's got your number, and it's coming up next.

To help diffuse the buttons, I dremeled the tops of the LEDs in the buttons to a rough finish so that they were less lens-like and focused. I also put white translucent nail polish on the back side of the buttons: