nicknack125

Looks fantaastic! i love it!
And i agree, the cyan looks the best!
Great job!

Just wanted to share this little project I've been working on for the past few days. I had a HC-06 Bluetooth Serial module laying around, so I figured I would hook it up to a microcontroller and some RGB LEDs to light up my build. So first off, let's start with the control board. I hooked up a spare attiny85 to the bluetooth serial module (plugged into the four pin female header in the top right of the board), allowing it to communicate with my phone over bluetooth. The large capacitor is there just to protect the LEDs from voltage spikes when booting up. 

(attached in case, using 5V molex for power).
 
 
Next up is LED choice - I went with the Adafruit Neopixel 1M strip, because these are RGB LEDs that are individually addressable, meaning each one of them can be a separate color from the others, as shown in their product pic below. Even though I likely won't use this feature in my build, it can be fun to have a flashy rainbow pattern just to show off once in a while.

 
Finally, you're probably wondering how it looks. This is how it looks with specific LEDs lighting up the GPU (the white is much more blue in this pic).

 
This is the LEDs on a single color, cyan. I personally think this looks the best.

 
And this is how it looks with a random assortment of colors.

 
 
Thanks for taking your time to check this out! If any of you have suggestions on how to improve this, feel free to leave them in the comments, as feedback is greatly appreciated. 

Just wanted to share this little project I've been working on for the past few days. I had a HC-06 Bluetooth Serial module laying around, so I figured I would hook it up to a microcontroller and some RGB LEDs to light up my build. So first off, let's start with the control board. I hooked up a spare attiny85 to the bluetooth serial module (plugged into the four pin female header in the top right of the board), allowing it to communicate with my phone over bluetooth. The large capacitor is there just to protect the LEDs from voltage spikes when booting up. 

(attached in case, using 5V molex for power).
 
 
Next up is LED choice - I went with the Adafruit Neopixel 1M strip, because these are RGB LEDs that are individually addressable, meaning each one of them can be a separate color from the others, as shown in their product pic below. Even though I likely won't use this feature in my build, it can be fun to have a flashy rainbow pattern just to show off once in a while.

 
Finally, you're probably wondering how it looks. This is how it looks with specific LEDs lighting up the GPU (the white is much more blue in this pic).

 
This is the LEDs on a single color, cyan. I personally think this looks the best.

 
And this is how it looks with a random assortment of colors.

 
 
Thanks for taking your time to check this out! If any of you have suggestions on how to improve this, feel free to leave them in the comments, as feedback is greatly appreciated. 

Same issue. I'm going to contact Corsair for a replacement.

Not an experience but it's related: http://xkcd.com/627/

A really old man (worst example EVER), was comming to our pc store because he bought a pc that didn't work.
he plugged it in, and nothing worked.
...
he didn't push the power button...
that said, he came back. the screen is still black.
same freaking reason. he did not turn the darn thing on, we had to draw out the symbol of a on/off switch, i walked to the back and laughed reeeaaally hard i allmost cried, 3 times in a row (first for the not working pc, second for the not working monitor and third for the actual drawing) XD
this has really happened :P but the guy was old (75?) and probably has never used an electrical device in his whole life (country side).
that was the least tech savvy person i have ever encountered.

I was Horace Goes Skiing from 1982.
 
Not that anyone gives a crap.

Finally, a give-away that requires people do to stuff not just announce the give-away, I believe these ones are better.

Now That's What I'm Talkin' About!!  :wub: