NES PAD LED's

So I've noticed that there's "alot" of people, talking about how they would add LED's to their NES pads, that lights when a button is pressed. Sadly noone seems to do anything about it, but one guy who just added LED's that was on constantly...

So I desided to something about it :-P

Attached: Small video of me demonstarting that it works...

Step 1 Disassembly

Unsrew the casing, and take out the curcuit board.

Comments

[samuraiclinton]

LEDs to indicate momentary activation? Is that really necessary?

[Oi23]

No,but in my opinion,it's pretty cool.

[mrbob1000]

to make it so you can press more buttons and it will still work is if you use a stronger resistor so less current is used by the leds (or you could use a diffrent color so that it would use less current)

[denilsonsa]

Maybe if all LEDs share a common resistor, then they won't be able to draw too much current? I'm not very sure about this, can someone please confirm this? Of course, this has a side-effect of LEDs becoming dimmer when more buttons are pressed at same time.

[blackcorvo]

the problem with sharing one resistor to more than one LED is that not all LEDs are "perfect twins". they may not have the exact same intenal resistance.

that means they maybe would not light up with the same brightness if they shared the same resistor...

but you can try it, if you want. this kind of conficuration won't fry your LEDs or anything, and if you google a bit you'll find LED resistor calculators with single LED, parallel LEDs and even series LEDs options. you'll just need to put the source voltage, the voltage you want across the LED and the current going through it.

[Hedgerow]

you could mount a watch battery inside the controller for the leds. a decent battery should last quite a while and not be too impractical. there is plenty of room inside an nes controller to leave one in there.

[zmandudesk8]

motherboard, but same thing : ] this is way better than some other mods

[joedog86]

The perfect project for an electronic hobbyist on a rainy day - I like it!

[Silas]

Well, for a whole day ? Naah, it only takes a couple of minutes.. :-P

[NetReaper]

no, i can take this project and take the entire day to finish

[trsuco]

What is the voltage on the resistor. It restricts 100 ohms and ??? volts.

[nevermind1534]

FIVE VOLTS. emember that it connects to the +5V connection on the board.

[Neodudeman]

Nice

[Silas]

Thanks guys.. As always if you like a project you see, please press the green plus button.. :-P

[zachninme]

It's now gray...

[TheCheese9921]

yes finaly, someone got of there butt and did it

[The3rror]

Its so simple but I love it