Comments on: DIY fiber backlit keyboard

By: heymeoverhere

heymeoverhere — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:44:49 +0000

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.

By: Katie99

Katie99 — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:18:51 +0000

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?

By: Nauman

Nauman — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:24:59 +0000

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

By: SubaruSTiRain

SubaruSTiRain — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:43:06 +0000

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

By: Flood_of_SYNs

Flood_of_SYNs — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:18:35 +0000

“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.

By: s1efe

s1efe — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:16:44 +0000

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

By: FRS

FRS — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:46:43 +0000

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.

By: jeicrash

jeicrash — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:27:18 +0000

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.

By: ...

... — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:27:18 +0000

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

By: Tom Parker

Tom Parker — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:38:21 +0000

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

By: Wolf

Wolf — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:29:08 +0000

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