yep, that’s how you do it.
if you have a multimiter it’s a lot easier, you check for conductivity, but i guess if you have a multimiter it’s because you know how to do this kinda stuff anyway.
so the battery trick is the way to go… make sure the way you connect the leds to the goggles is the same as the diagram (in terms of number, which number goes up, left, right, which eye, etc)… else the preset patterns will become kind of random. all you need to remember is the number of the pins though, because with lpt the functions are something like:
turn on pin 2
wait whatever time
turn off pin 2
whatever’s connected to pin 2 doesn’t really matter, the port will output voltage. of course, there’s other pins, but the first 8 (since 8 leds) work this way.
so yeah, let me know how it goes and if they work for you
as for the rem-dreamer idea (the gsr unit is on hold right now, i was terribly busy with school, but i’ll get back to it soon, we were making some progress) it’s a good idea and someone could obviously reverse engineer the mask… the problem is the microcontroller software (because the mask is operated by one) which i really don’t know much about… so someone else would have to figure that out… AND, the second problem, is the price… if i could have bought one, i would have, and i wouldn’t bother trying to make clones/variations of the device. Sure, once I’d have it i couldn’t resist figuring out which parts it uses, how they work, etc, i always wondered that. But yeah, i can’t afford buying one and not even knowing if it will work properly.