Hey guys,
I'm a decent computer geek with a fair amount of experience, I'm good at soldering, fixing ds's etc... basic stuff, but I've never actually spent the time to mod much. I'm looking at building an i7 rig about the time of fermi's release with fermi, along with water cooling and everything else. What I want to do though, is mod my case, my color scheme is going to be a dark purple and black. I'm gonna paint using a stencil purple around my image on the side mesh grill, and probably do some other painting. What I want to do, is string up a lot of led's inside the case (all purple, think black light purple) to highlight certain parts and give it a really cool glow from the inside.
What I need help with, is what kind of supplies should I use? I will hook it up to my psu of course, so I'll need to hook them up and calculate the size of resistor I'll use. I'll probably just use one resister and all the rest of the lights in series, but what would you suggest? a resistor per led? Also, what kind of wire, resistors, and leds would you suggest? I also would like to make the water cooling have a purple glow through uv reactive die in the water, and I want the paint to be uv reactive. Obviously, as I've already said, all of this needs to be purple. Where can I get uv reactive paint, and what're the best kinds?
Also, suppliers for each of these parts would be much appreciated, but any help is welcome.
Thanks,
Ben