[sdiy] Custom LED MEC switches ( was Re: Sparkfun Keypad Controllers)

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 10 Feb 2012, at 11:57, Jason Tribbeck wrote:

> On 10 February 2012 11:29, Mattias Rickardsson <mr at analogue.org> wrote:
> 
> not RGB, but I want red to be red! :'-/ So much that I'm thinking of
> the possibility of mounting a decent red/green LED in their non-LED
> version...? :-)
>  
> You can easily switch them over - they're just standard 3mm LEDs from what I've seen. The non-LED versions are just the same as the LED ones (i.e they have the casting for LEDs), so you should be able to buy non-LED versions, and insert your own LEDs into them.

Seconded. It can be done - I just tried it. The LED leg-bending is a bit fiddly and I wouldn't like to have to do 100 (this is not a production technique!) but for a one-off it's doable.
So custom blue or violet MEC switches are possible. The switch body only has holes for 2 LED legs though, so we still can't do RGB, only bicolour.

T.