Though the existing solution of switching the led according to the backlight probly works fine for most all scenarios, if you had to have it keyboard controled, the earlier overhead light tutorials controler setup could probably be addapted to this mod with next to no modification

Posted at 1:29 am on Feb 25th, 2007 by Wolf

The english is the best ever! Pretty cool idea though!

Posted at 6:38 am on Feb 25th, 2007 by Tom Parker

Why would you shine the light between the keys? Now you are staring into the led whenever you look down on the keys…

Posted at 12:27 pm on Feb 25th, 2007 by ...

Good for a start, although i’d probably just use a few leds and take apart an old laptop monitor and cut the defusers down the kb size instead of running fiber optics, too much room for breaking or as you stated (Scratches).

Good mod though. Keep it up.

Posted at 3:27 pm on Feb 25th, 2007 by jeicrash

According to the link it’s a single 1,000 mCD LED, not a 10,000 mCD as will states. Looks cool, too bad by keys are opaque.

Posted at 5:46 pm on Feb 25th, 2007 by FRS

What happened to the design challenge? You 5crewed us! Shame on you! Mod is good, has LEDs

Posted at 6:16 pm on Feb 25th, 2007 by s1efe

“Why would you shine the light between the keys? Now you are staring into the led whenever you look down on the keys…” by: …

The LED light source is covered from view when the keyboard is covering it, is not seen.

Posted at 7:18 pm on Feb 25th, 2007 by Flood_of_SYNs

Holy cow, this is a neat mod. I used to like IBM thinkpads for the reason that they had the ThinkLight.

Posted at 2:43 pm on Mar 1st, 2007 by SubaruSTiRain

pretty good idea. i like cuz its a cheap and easy project

Posted at 7:24 am on Mar 5th, 2007 by Nauman

Forgive me for the silly question; I don’t know all that much about this kind of thing. Would it be possible to ever turn off the lights?

Posted at 10:18 pm on Apr 7th, 2007 by Katie99

Another simple idea might be to get some letter stencils and a can of (or product similar to it) Nite Lite from Duplicolor, remove the keys, apply stencils, and paint.
One would think the ambient light from the laptop screen alone would be enough to keep the keys glowing once this stuff is applied. Never tried it, but I might.

Posted at 9:44 am on Jul 29th, 2009 by heymeoverhere