I have an idea for an experimental cd-rom stealth. The top drive bay cover on a case of mine, petrudes from the case about an inch. It also has 2 holes for LEDs on it. One beneath the other. So I wanted to make use of them. So I had an idea for a special steath. I want to make it so that the top LED (Which I think should be green) would be constantly on, except for when the bottom Red LED is on. I want to make a circut so that when you push a corner of the drive bay cover, the red LED cuts on and shuts the green one off, also, I want a delay before the CD tray pops out.

The order of things that I want to happen:

1. The green LED is on
2. Button is pressed
3. Green LED turns off, thus turning on the red one.
4. a one second delay.
5. the CD tray opens.

Then after I put in a new one:

1. the red LED is on
2. Either I push on the drive or I hit a button on the drive bay cover
3. CD tray retracts and closes
4. one second delay
5. red LED turns off and the green one turns on.

sounds cool, put up pics when your done.

I won't be done for a long time. I am still no were near finnished with the planning. I am still hammering out ways to make it work the way I want it to on paper. I was asking if anyone here would know exactly how to do this, or if anyone could give me any tops.

I was also toying with the idea of turning the bottom three drive bays into a stealthed drawer. You could store a joypad or a digital camera in it. You could also put some cables and a mouse in it, when you are on your way to a LAN party.

I never thought that I would already be using stuff that I learned in electronics in real life applications. Looks like I have to break open that text book. I would have to hurry to finnish the schematic. I have to turn back in my book on thurday. Thursday is my electonics EOC.

An expansion idea just hit me. Maybe I should not even bother with pushing on the drive bay cover, I could have a control switch implanted on the left over floppy cover. So that there isnlt just a lone switch, I could Also add a switch to turn on and off the interior lights so that I do not have to reach around to the back of the computer to turn it off.

Ok, I think that I have got the right schematic down. I think that the switch that I need to do this is a dual limiter switch. (If there is such a thing. I know that I will need a dual whatever type of seitch that the cd-rom drive uses. I also will need a 555 Timer IC. I think I need 555. I need it for the delay of the opening of the cd-rom. But I think that I will delay both of them and cause no lights to apear for the alotted time. I am a little confused and will hammer out more of it tomarrow, when I talk to my electonics teacher.

I have a rough design of the circutry done. I think that I need to know which switch the cd-rom uses in the first place. I think that it uses a limiter DPST switch. The design that I currently have drawn up won't quite work right. WIth the schematic the delay of the drive would work and the LEDS would work. The problem is, is that I can not figure out how to make the lights change when the switch is thrown. Since there is only one throw. Is it possible for the CD-ROM to work useing a DPDT switch? If so, can you give me a schematic of how it would work or just a simple explanation.