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originally posted in:Art and Stuff
5/1/2013 4:51:26 AM
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Here's another cool idea I just thought up, get very thin sheet at a local art supply store and draw the design on it, then cut it out. Put it over the top of the case and use a dremel to cut all the way through the first layer of the case (top to inside). Then get some very thin, clear plastic and cut it into the shape using the plastic you cut from the case. .
Get an Orange LED and wire it up to the power, (just find the power input and solder the LED to it). Put the LED in place.
Epoxy the clear piece over the LED and sand it down over a few days.
Turn it on, and enjoy.
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Imagine if I also hooked up the light to the battery LED, so it would change color depending on the battery life. Then it'd be Blue when charged, Red when low, and orange when charging. All 3 colors!
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If you messed around with some stuff I'm sure you could make a sort of circuit that would allow that. It could detect how much power is going into it and send the signal off depending on that.
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Edited by A 3 Legged Goat: 5/1/2013 5:54:07 AMYea that would be really cool, but a lot more than I'd budgeted for initially. I have like no experience or training with soldering or custom chips, and even then the LED would drain the battery. The dremel idea is still nice though. What I could do is just make a swirl shaped cut into the hood and then put an orange sheet behind it. Then put a thin plastic sheet the same shape as the swirl into the cut out, so there'll be like a clear swirl that has some depth to it. Even that seems like a lot more work than painting it though. I think with painting all I'd need to do is sand the corner, then use a stencil to paint the spiral. After it's done, I can wait for it to dry before I gloss over it. It wont look anywhere as cool as an indented design or an LED, but it will definitely look nice and be a lot less tool work.
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Well you have to [b][u][i]DO[/b][/u][/i] it. Which implies work. It is going to be work which will require extra time. The end result will be worth it, as well as knowing you did it. A natural high, the sense of accomplishment.
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Edited by A 3 Legged Goat: 5/1/2013 6:04:03 AMOh yea I definitely like that sense of accomplishment, and there are some crazy ideas I could do to it. I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't want to get [i]too[/i] extravagant, only to have the system fail me shortly after. I want to run with a design that is not only good looking, but also cost effective and long-lasting. I'd rather not do anything that might require me to open the system up down the road, and modifying the DS itself could create unforeseen issues. With that said, if I found a really thin LED, a cheap dremel, and an idiot's method of soldering it to the power supply and battery circuit so it would joint illuminate with the battery LED, I'd be all over it. Perhaps I'll do more research into it. Maybe with an external battery pack I could make it work too, because the main concern there is how much of the power it saps. I think I'd be more comfortable with that method though if I had a mentor. I maybe took one technical course in school and it didn't deal with anything like this. Then again, nobody showed me how to open the system in the first place; Youtube did that. So maybe this whole thing would be Youtube taught like you said.
