I’ve seen this on pbx forum I think and love the double “dmd” hats off to you for configuring all that and very nice build! Glad to see you share the project here! Very cool cab!
Thank you very much. Watched all of your Youtube videos before building my cabinet, and they were very helpful.
Now I’m in the middle of figuring out what direction I want to go with controlled lighting. (and eventually feedback)
It’s gotta be cheap (being a tech for 20 years with a wife who doesn’t relate to this stuff is frustrating!) If all I cared about was DOF and Visual Pinball, the choice would be very easy…. go with the addressable LED lighting you and swisslizard and the others have been playing with which makes total sense…
…but I also want to have controlled lighting for MAME for the buttons / sticks (I have “CP Wizard created” control panels pics show up for each game on the top DMD screen now, with the MAME marquee in the lower half. It shows while browsing Pinball X and while playing)…
…and I still want to be able to use what I can for LED lighting / feedback for Future Pinball. I know I have to edit the scripts in the tables to do this, but I want to be able to use what I can, and make my own effects if I can figure it out.
The first priority is lighting…. then feedback in the future. If I go with the addressable LED matrix instead of CREE leds, then I have no way of making use of them with Future Pinball, correct? Future Pinball is a priority for me. Also, I don’t know if I use a PACLED64 for buttons / pinball lighting instead of LEDWIZ, will I be able to use that with Future Pinball tables via FP’s “LED-Wiz” capabilities, or is “feedback / controlled lighting” only possible with an LEDWIZ with Future Pinball?
Perhaps this is the best course of action:
PACLED64 for all of my lighting (if it can work with FP):
-for buttons (assuming I dont go RGB for buttons) and sticks, as well as cree RGB flashers, and a normal RGB led strip on the sides of playfield, and at the back of the playfield (at the bottom).
-in the future I can then install a second strip of addressable RGB leds above the normal strips beside the playfield, relocate the cree flashers as a topper, and install led matrix above the normal led strip at the back of the playfield. This would give me the capability of the new DOF matrix lighting for VP, and still have the old lighting for FP.
If PACLED64 wont work for FP, then I have to use LEDWIZ no matter what….
….so then I guess I’m stuck with LED Wiz for FP, VP, initially. Not enough ports for MAME buttons/ sticks afterward… so I guess I will have to go with a PACLED 64 (or smaller) for just that.
I do however want to install one of ZEBs Opto Flipper / Relay boards so I can at least have flipper feedback for ALL pinball games for the cheap no matter what.
Any ideas or suggestions… having all this stuff in one cabinet makes for a non-typical setup. I don’t want to buy something just to find it was a waste for my purposes, etc..
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