Warning for the humor impaired: I'm not really all that serious about most of the following, and I have a bit of a dry sense of humor.
Do y'all think that I could get something like the following put in my bass?
http://www.lsdiodes.com/THC3/5mmwhite.htm That's 22-24 candela.
I know that Luxeon makes a high current LED that produces like 75 candela. If you used that in a dark room, it'd cause flash blindness. That'd be just about right (but I don't know where they'll put the heat sink).
Like a Ron Popeil bass-o-light-o-matic. But wait, that's not all!
The other thought I had was to have dual- or tri-color leds. Then you could change the color manually (some sort of selector) or have it on a timer (blinking red/green or red/green/amber).
Or flash at high speed, and induce seizures in all your friends.
That'd be a little tiny bit over the top.
I was thinking about throbbing LEDs, like:
http://www.cpemma.co.uk/throbber.html . That'd be like the throbbing power LED on Macs. That I'm actually half serious about; it'd be cool.
How about LEDs that sequentially dim/light like an aircraft runway?
How about
http://www.glowire.com/ Glowire (electroluminescent wire). Etch the outline of your instrument.
Finally, one (fully) serious thought. How about a red/green LED that is green when battery voltage is within acceptable limits, but turns red otherwise. The Nintendo Gameboy does this, and it's pretty cool. Put it right next to the jack.
I'd love to hear your thoughts, even if it's just to tell me I'm nuts (although I'd welcome things I *don't* already know, too!).
I don't think I'd actually do any of these to my current bass (maybe the red/green battery thing, if it didn't push my bass into the second September of 2007), maybe I'll push the envelope a little further next time (shh... don't tell my wife).
Brad
