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Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#91

Post by wlesieutre »

Animats wrote: post #75
wlesieutre wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on. AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware. Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked…

desktop literally built into the desk top The Sun "pizza box" computer was like that.[1] You could just bolt a 1U rackmount server to the underside of a desktop. Or get a desk that's 1.75 inches thick, cut a hole of the appropriate size, and recess the server into it. There are lots of under the desk computer mounts, but I haven't seen a recessed one. [1] https://blog.pizzabox.computer/pizzaboxes/sparcstation/

I imagine something like this: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2047642/how-a-legendary-pc-m...

Except without the glass top. Or perhaps glass with a very dark tint so that it looks black, but with sufficiently bright internal lighting you can see through it.

The easier and more likely version would be to make the computer fit in a normal desk drawer. Prefer that to a 1U on account of fan size as another commenter mentioned, but being off to one side instead of the whole desk surface has the benefit of not making the whole desk chunkier.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#92

Post by Animats »

wlesieutre wrote: post #91
Animats wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

desktop literally built into the desk top The Sun "pizza box" computer was like that.[1] You could just bolt a 1U rackmount server to the underside of a desktop. Or get a desk that's 1.75 inches thick, cut a hole of the appropriate size, and recess the server into it. There are lots of under the desk computer mounts, but I haven't seen a recessed one. [1] https://blog.pizzabox.computer/pizzaboxes/sparcstation/

I imagine something like this: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2047642/how-a-legendary-pc-m... Except without the glass top. Or perhaps glass with a very dark tint so that it looks black, but with sufficiently bright internal lighting you can see through it. The easier and more likely version would be to make the computer fit in a normal desk drawer. Prefer that to a 1U on account of fan size as another commenter men…

That site won't even scroll with the 19 ad trackers blocked.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#93

Post by wlesieutre »

tylermenezes wrote: post #89
wlesieutre wrote: post #85

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But my case (with mesh intakes) serves the important function of keeping cat hair out of the heatsinks

I actually have a medium-hair cat and it's been fine. But it's pretty far off the floor.

Yeah now that you mention it, mine has needed this a lot less since I hung it under the desk earlier this year. It used to be on the floor.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#94

Post by alliao »

chuckdries wrote: post #20

If you're in this thread "I built a PC, all my stuff has RGB, it's fine but I don't get it", try setting them all to the same color - you might be surprised how nice it looks. I set everything to white, but my roommate has a nice shade of purple he uses for everything. My real golden rule is absolutely no motion. Can't stand cycling rainbows or whatever.

ooo and dim them if there's an disturbance, like ramped up cpu, gpu, or a key pressed on the keyboard would dim that key and radiating decreasing dimming from "disturbance"

I'd get that

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#95

Post by wlesieutre »

Animats wrote: post #92
wlesieutre wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine something like this: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2047642/how-a-legendary-pc-m... Except without the glass top. Or perhaps glass with a very dark tint so that it looks black, but with sufficiently bright internal lighting you can see through it. The easier and more likely version would be to make the computer fit in a normal desk drawer. Prefer that to a 1U on account of fan size as another commenter men…

That site won't even scroll with the 19 ad trackers blocked.

Working for me with 20 things blocked by ublock, but try this: https://www.l3p.nl/l3p-d3sk/

The other link is showing this desk and another commercialized version inspired by it.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#96

Post by bahorn »

Been using the project for a year now and submitted a few patches. It's a fun project to hack on, so would recommend getting involved if this sort of thing interests you.

Regarding the value of RGB, honestly one of the cooler uses which the projects been enabling is showing things like system status on your devices. And beyond that, getting a cool pattern or mode implemented is just a fun weekend project.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#97

Post by ChuckNorris89 »

swinglock wrote: post #90
wlesieutre wrote: post #62

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I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on. AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware. Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked…

Do you know if newer cases gotten better than P180, for sound isolation while keeping cool? That's still my case, but it's huge and I don't need that space anymore.

Check out the bequiet! brand cases.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#98

Post by wlesieutre »

swinglock wrote: post #90
wlesieutre wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on. AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware. Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked…

Do you know if newer cases gotten better than P180, for sound isolation while keeping cool? That's still my case, but it's huge and I don't need that space anymore.

No idea - I remember spending a lot of time browsing Silent PC Review on previous builds to make sure I got an appropriately quiet power supply and everything else, but it stopped doing any meaningful testing years ago, and the current incarnation basically looks like affiliate link blogspam.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#99

Post by jaywalk »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #55
jaywalk wrote: post #11

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When I built a new PC recently, I got RGB everything. I just keep it all set to a dark blue. I think it looks nice, that's really all there is to it.

Ok... so why not just buy some dark blue LEDs and put them anywhere you want without the complexity of interfacing them with your computer?

Huh? All of the components of my computer, both internal and external, have RGB built-in. It would be practically impossible to replicate that by just buying some dark blue LEDs, and there's barely any additional complexity involved with RGB components. There are literally only two additional connections in my machine due to the RGB, and those are for the LEDs in the case and the water cooler. Every other component uses the data lines it's already connected to.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#100

Post by kylegordon »

wlesieutre wrote: post #62
chuckdries wrote: post #20

If you're in this thread "I built a PC, all my stuff has RGB, it's fine but I don't get it", try setting them all to the same color - you might be surprised how nice it looks. I set everything to white, but my roommate has a nice shade of purple he uses for everything. My real golden rule is absolutely no motion. Can't stand cycling rainbows or whatever.

I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on. AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware. Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked…

> desktop literally built into the desk top

DIY Perks did that.

Invisible PC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Perqf0dOGLk

Invisible monitor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0mNSMBmFQ

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