KITT/Cylon LED Mod

[Gary_Busey]

I'm planning on buying an NZXT Apollo and I want to install a blue LED mod that looks like the lights on KITT in the show Knight Rider, I think it'd look cool under that smoked plexi front panel. I've searched the internet and found several pages on mods like this, but I can't find anything that shows step by step. I've found a lot of diagrams, but I don't know what those mean or how to use them. Has anyone done this mod or something like it? Do you know of a site that can show me how to go about doing something like this? I'm a noob when it comes to circuits and circuit boards.

 

[badge]

Enjoy.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=knight+ridder

 

[doolittle]

There is a basic tutorial on how to prototype on a breadboard (link), and the following links show the basics of connecting components. Fun stuff.

Also check out The Light Byte, which shows how to interface your unused, legacy parallel port to light up 8 leds. Then, just feed it the correct bytes in a program, like this...

00000001
00000010
00000100
00001000
00010000
00100000
01000000
10000000
01000000
00100000
00010000
00001000
00000100
00000010
00000001

Unless a standalone circuit is preferred, your call. Just throwing out options for you...

edit - check out this - Java Breadboard Simulator

 

[Gary_Busey]

Thanks man. That's exactly what I was looking for.