Hello all,
I am looking for some resources or help on doing a computer case modification featuring some pretty cool lighting effects using LED's. I am having a lot of other RGB LED lighting effects on a current computer build I am working on and I was looking to also maybe gain a solution for tying all the lighting controllers I have together if possible as well.
Its a Lian-Li PC-O8WX computer case with a RGB lighting controller already, but I was looking to change the current fans. I am also using some of the new Thermaltake Pacific RGB water cooling fittings and plan to purchase about 6 RGB fans for the case (likely Corsair 120HD RGB fans). If I could get something that I could program various lighting effects to or eventually tie it into a simple UI in a programmed windows application or something very rudimentary along those lines that would work too. The RGB fittings and the Corsair fans come with their own controllers and I am wondering if there is some way to integrate everything together, ideally. My thought was a raspberry pi or some arduino chip I briefly saw mentioned around here. I will admit I am pretty lost when it comes to this, but I am fairly good at DIY projects and learning, I have some minor experience with one-line electrical diagrams and I am a designer/draftsman by profession, so 3D modeling and some mechanical/(minor)electrical/plumbing design are my current skill sets.
Another feature I was looking to add to this case and possibly the first starting point to all this lighting hubub is an idea I came up with when I saw the InWin Ininity 805 computer case in a microcenter recently. Pic below:
Doing some research on this inifinity mirror effect, I realized it is achieved with a mirror on the back and a one way glass film on the inside of a front piece of glass, thus creating a repeating reflective effect where light is trapped inside but visible through the one way pane. Very achievable with some very inexpensive materials I have already researched.
To top it off I had the idea of instead of using a strip of LED's surrounding the perimiter, I wanted to use a prism in the middle and focus beams of white LED light towards it in laser-like precision from different angles and then generating a different exiting beam color based on the angle it passes through. Resulting exit colors would be controlled based on simply which LED was activated and combinations could be programmed in a sort of laser light show. I have been looking at this cool site https://www.fasttech.com/category/1699/flashlights--lasers for DIY flashlight lenses and LED's to achieve this laser like lighting.
This is an exciting project for me and I hope I can get it off the ground, thats why I am reaching out for some help. I can always consider tying into my motherboard with some sort of add in card of sorts if there is something out there that would achieve this. I am considering any other lighting controller that might be off the shelf, but if not, it would be cool to say i created my own circuit and programmed some sort of chip on a pcb board to control all this!
Thanks,
Warren
I am looking for some resources or help on doing a computer case modification featuring some pretty cool lighting effects using LED's. I am having a lot of other RGB LED lighting effects on a current computer build I am working on and I was looking to also maybe gain a solution for tying all the lighting controllers I have together if possible as well.
Its a Lian-Li PC-O8WX computer case with a RGB lighting controller already, but I was looking to change the current fans. I am also using some of the new Thermaltake Pacific RGB water cooling fittings and plan to purchase about 6 RGB fans for the case (likely Corsair 120HD RGB fans). If I could get something that I could program various lighting effects to or eventually tie it into a simple UI in a programmed windows application or something very rudimentary along those lines that would work too. The RGB fittings and the Corsair fans come with their own controllers and I am wondering if there is some way to integrate everything together, ideally. My thought was a raspberry pi or some arduino chip I briefly saw mentioned around here. I will admit I am pretty lost when it comes to this, but I am fairly good at DIY projects and learning, I have some minor experience with one-line electrical diagrams and I am a designer/draftsman by profession, so 3D modeling and some mechanical/(minor)electrical/plumbing design are my current skill sets.
Another feature I was looking to add to this case and possibly the first starting point to all this lighting hubub is an idea I came up with when I saw the InWin Ininity 805 computer case in a microcenter recently. Pic below:
Doing some research on this inifinity mirror effect, I realized it is achieved with a mirror on the back and a one way glass film on the inside of a front piece of glass, thus creating a repeating reflective effect where light is trapped inside but visible through the one way pane. Very achievable with some very inexpensive materials I have already researched.
To top it off I had the idea of instead of using a strip of LED's surrounding the perimiter, I wanted to use a prism in the middle and focus beams of white LED light towards it in laser-like precision from different angles and then generating a different exiting beam color based on the angle it passes through. Resulting exit colors would be controlled based on simply which LED was activated and combinations could be programmed in a sort of laser light show. I have been looking at this cool site https://www.fasttech.com/category/1699/flashlights--lasers for DIY flashlight lenses and LED's to achieve this laser like lighting.
This is an exciting project for me and I hope I can get it off the ground, thats why I am reaching out for some help. I can always consider tying into my motherboard with some sort of add in card of sorts if there is something out there that would achieve this. I am considering any other lighting controller that might be off the shelf, but if not, it would be cool to say i created my own circuit and programmed some sort of chip on a pcb board to control all this!
Thanks,
Warren