The coolest "light" in your gameroom.....

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The coolest "light" in your gameroom.....

I think by far it this one in mine....
Its a real stop light I bought on ebay over 10 years ago. It was "cool" until my buddy built me a circuit that actually controls it....NOW IT IS REALLY COOL! It is microprocessor controlled. You dial in a pot....
By dialing in the pot you can choose:
#1: only Red
#2: only Yellow
#3: only Green
#4 ALL on (SEEN IN PIC)
#5 Red 4 min, Yellow 15 sec, Green 5 min........(This is my Favorite)
#6 Flashing Red
#7 Flashing Yellow
#8 All flash.........
What do you have? Custom NEON? An old school moving beer sign? A sweet Lava Lamp? Something yet to be seen?!
Lets see............
 

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I like the LED EXIT sign I installed. Added a toggle switch so I can turn it on or off at will, wife's idea. :rolleyes:
 

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I think by far it this one in mine....
Its a real stop light I bought on ebay over 10 years ago. It was "cool" until my buddy built me a circuit that actually controls it....NOW IT IS REALLY COOL! It is microprocessor controlled. You dial in a pot....
By dialing in the pot you can choose:
#1: only Red
#2: only Yellow
#3: only Green
#4 ALL on (SEEN IN PIC)
#5 Red 4 min, Yellow 15 sec, Green 5 min........(This is my Favorite)
#6 Flashing Red
#7 Flashing Yellow
#8 All flash.........
What do you have? Custom NEON? An old school moving beer sign? A sweet Lava Lamp? Something yet to be seen?!
Lets see............

i have a signal light and a walk, dont walk sign. is your buddy interested in making another circuit for some cash? i would love to be able to have these work like #5 on your list with the walk dont walk timed with it.
 
i have a signal light and a walk, dont walk sign. is your buddy interested in making another circuit for some cash? i would love to be able to have these work like #5 on your list with the walk dont walk timed with it.

I told him he needs to start selling these things..... He just doesn't have any interest.
Wish I could help. It's a pretty simple circuit that controls it, the "brains" of it is a microprocessor, and he programmed that himself, I have very little knowledge of how to program microprocessors....
Before he offered to build it for me I was going to go a model railroad website and find something to run it. I know they sell all sorts of circuits to run stops lights, railroad lights, and I'd assume your walk sign......
 
i have a signal light and a walk, dont walk sign. is your buddy interested in making another circuit for some cash? i would love to be able to have these work like #5 on your list with the walk dont walk timed with it.

If I ever get a walk/don't walk light (which I wouldn't unless it was dirt cheap), I'd set it up outside because my game room is a separate building, and with a walkway from my patio to my game room it would be cool to have the walk/don't walk light mounted on a pole near the game room. I'd program my own controller unless there was one readily available.

We like to have friends over for dinner followed by games. It would be cool to have it say "don't walk" during dinner and then when we're ready to open up for games switch it to "walk" (maybe with an occasional "don't walk" cycle to make it more interesting). :D

As for my coolest sign, currently that would be my "exit" sign just like Zud's, except green. Eventually I'll have several lit signs that will be way cooler, but those projects are on hold until I have a little more free time.
 
Wow....so many cool lights in this thread.....I even dig that 'Exit' sign that is switch controlled.....awesome!

My favorite for sure is my doorways.....set up with an LED controller you can do fades, pulsing.....etc......with 7 different colors. There is also an adapter you can buy to make it flash to music.....but I have not got that silly yet....

Alan

 

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Wow....so many cool lights in this thread.....I even dig that 'Exit' sign that is switch controlled.....awesome!

My favorite for sure is my doorways.....set up with an LED controller you can do fades, pulsing.....etc......with 7 different colors. There is also an adapter you can buy to make it flash to music.....but I have not got that silly yet....

Alan

Too cool! How did you do that? Tell me there's a kit that you can link to.
 
I added a video with it flashing.....you can also make it flash soooooo fast you get dizzy....especially with the white light.

Kit - I designed and built it all from scratch. The LED kit came from USLED Supply....
 
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