ummm. ok

Posted at 1:36 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by walt

“intillectual” <- meant to be a pun?

kinda neat hack, but wouldn’t a backlight be more useful than a flashlight?

Posted at 1:37 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by dax

@dax
ha, no firefox doesn’t see that as misspelled for some reason. Thanks for the heads up.

Posted at 1:40 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by Caleb Kraft

yes i agree with dax.

Wouldn’t a backlight be more useful anyways good mod and nice job

Posted at 1:50 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by iben

What’s with the techno music?

Posted at 2:23 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by ngth

“Did you just pull out my batteries?” Yes “Dude! I didn’t have my games archived. NOOOOOOO!”

Posted at 2:33 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by Slawek

hi brightness LEDs: <$20
Time involved 10 mod the case: couple hours
getting everyone viewing the video to tilt their head slightly and say “What?!?”: Priceless

Posted at 3:15 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by aztraph

Here is the flickr…

http://flickr.com/photos/26422301@N02/

Posted at 3:16 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by Sil3ntP8nd8

ugh, i just got punked in binary.

Posted at 3:19 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by aztraph

why bother?

Posted at 4:24 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by lessthanchris1

Seriously the calculator equivalent of street glow? Whats next a foam body kit and a sticker on the battery door? Some people’s kids!

Posted at 4:41 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by UltraApple

Is there no on/off switch?

Posted at 5:14 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by Sp`ange

if you want the respect of your classmates, youll never do this hack

Posted at 5:25 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by roshamboe

useless hack!!

Posted at 5:34 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by adamastor

uselesssss and the vid is phail.

Posted at 6:11 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by zigzagjoe

lame ass hack for two reasons. 1 not even a switch for on off, or even a relay function tied to “on” to control the leds. 2 the leds are on the back and would be more of a help to have a back light then saying “look at me teacher im probably going to cheat in class with this calculator that is glowing”. also uber nerd bling, but nerd bling is cool.

Posted at 6:14 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by nick

you’re going to regret it when your batteries die during a test.

Posted at 6:18 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by andrew

If you looked at the flickr there is a switch :)

Posted at 7:06 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by Sil3ntP8nd8

It’s a sad day when this makes hackaday. It’s also the day when I stop checking this site regularly. :(

Posted at 7:22 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by ben

aside from it not being a “hack”… this mod isn’t even slightly amusing. I can take my TV remote and put LEDs on the back of it…my steering wheel…or even on the bottom of my toaster. The music fails to even bring a slight change of mood…im still stuck at wtf. If he wants to make this a real mod or “hack” he would get at least 555 timer and start strobing(?) stuff. …or make backlit buttons! AH HAH now theres an idea

Posted at 8:07 pm on Nov 20th, 2008 by Toast

Hooray! Now I can have a pimped out ti! w00t…

If I had this calc… I would totally put something that broadcasts to the world I have a small peni… I mean a spoiler on this. Because everything is cooler with spoilers and undercarriage lights, right?

Posted at 4:02 am on Nov 21st, 2008 by youthinkidpostmyrealname?

I concur that nerd bling is cool… but this just doesn’t quite seem like nerd bling so much as a little bit of fail (although leds are cool.)

Posted at 4:03 am on Nov 21st, 2008 by srilyk

I’m not usually one to complain, but I submitted an article about someone who hacked a child safety switch into their fridge ice/water door over a month ago, which has yet to be posted on HAD.

But this LED hack was apparently more note-worthy enough to make it. Color me confused.

Posted at 4:47 am on Nov 21st, 2008 by Pouncer

@pouncer

There are a number of reasons why a hack won’t get posted. It is quite possible that some big news event happened and yours slipped through the cracks. I’d be happy to look at it. We’re always looking for better stuff to write about.

Posted at 7:33 am on Nov 21st, 2008 by Caleb Kraft

And the purpose of this is…..?

Posted at 8:47 am on Nov 21st, 2008 by crobicha

okay…..
I added a backlight to me TI-89T a while ago, took out the metal spacer and removed the film beneath the LCD. I cut a piece of plexiglass up and put it under the LCD. Then I noticed that I removed the polarizer film, too -.-. I dug up an old LCD and tore some pol film off of that, finally got the LCD working properly again, added some EL film for the lighting and voila!

Posted at 12:21 pm on Nov 21st, 2008 by kenny

hack? this is no hack. its stupid. another way to drain your batteries. useless…

admin, please moderate your site mare carefully. think of all your usual “hacker” readers. who would do this and call it a hack?

to be clear: post like this sucks! give us something we could use. im very disappointed by the author of this post and by site moderators.

Posted at 10:13 am on Nov 22nd, 2008 by will

I wont do that to my Titanium, indeed I’d like to see some wireless implemented so I can cheat on exams (like wireless comunications exam ^_^ ).

Another nice hack would be li-ion rechargeable battery, or CF/SD I/O to store programs… just some ideas.

Posted at 12:37 am on Nov 25th, 2008 by Qualsiasi

THAT’S AN EXPENSIVE FLASHLIGHT!!!!! But it is true that it’s useless…. sorry…

Posted at 5:00 pm on Sep 18th, 2009 by Tyler Caine