Hey guys,
Over a decade ago I did some serious modding to my Gamecube. I added two big fans on the sides and I put LEDs all over the place, making my Gamecube a true Christmas decoration 
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Now the main attraction is the jewel, which is fully backlit. You can print out any design you want on transparent overhead sheets and stick it in. You can change it on the fly, pretty neet. It's hard to make a photo that's truly representative of how nice it actually looks, but anyway:
For this mod I created a backlight disc by using an 80mm white ring CCFL with sanded acrylic glass, paper and alu tape. This is suspended with rubber bands to the lid, which allows you to easily swap logo cards:
Now this approach works pretty well, but is a bit crude. I'm planning on doing some more of these mods and I'm looking for better ways to do this:
- I've been looking into using backlights from smartphones. However I can't seem to find one of the right size, and I don't quite know how to connect one.
- Also I'm looking for ideas for better mounting.
- Even more fancy would be to use an LCD screen with a Raspberry Pi or something to make the jewel an actual working screen
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So do you guys have any suggestions? Thanks!
