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As the title says, [José Faria] added the ability to adjust his keyboard backlight based on ambient light levels. But that's just one of the things he did during his hacking extravaganza with this Razer BlackWidow Ultimate. When he first received the peripheral he didn't like the blue LEDs used as backlights. So he removed all of them and put in white ones. He doesn't talk too much about that … [Read more...]
[Lee Davison] acquired an Acer laptop that didn't have a display anymore. He had enough parts on hand to add in an LCD panel and give it a CCFL backlight. But when he started looking for an inverter to drive the backlight he couldn't find one. What he did have on hand were some smashed screens that had LED backlights and so the CCFL to LED backlight conversion project was born. He tore into the … [Read more...]
For being more than 20 years old, [Max]'s old brick-sized Game boy still has a lot of life left in it. Even though his Game Boy was still in good condition, there were a few vertical lines in the display, making it a perfect candidate for a restoration. While he had his DMG-01 open on his work bench, [Max] also decided to put in a back light. After researching the blank vertical lines in his … [Read more...]
[Troy Wright] acquired a lot of twenty broken Dell Axim PDAs. This type hardware was quite popular a decade ago, but looks archaic when compared to a modern cell phone. That's why he was able to get them for a song. After a bit of work he managed to resurrect eight of the units, but was dismayed to find there's no published method for controlling the back light from software. For some reason … [Read more...]
[Ammon] repairs busted LCD monitors as a side hobby, so replacing burned out CCFLs and inverter circuits is something he can do in his sleep. One Dell monitor he received had him so perplexed, that he simply gave up on trying to repair the inverter circuit. He still wanted to get it working, so he had some narrow PCBs made and started working on his LED replacement backlight. He built a driver … [Read more...]
[palmertech] and [Bibin] have both completed backlight projects for the Game Boy Pocket recently. The most difficult part of the transplant is carefully removing the reflective backing on the LCD. After a thorough cleaning, a diffuser and backlight panel were added. [palmertech] used a backlight salvaged from a DS, while [Bibin] built his own using LEDs. You can see his backlight in the video … [Read more...]
We'd never discount the beauty that is the SpokePOV bike wheel kits, but if you want to just turn your bicycle into a blinding blur, [depotdevoid] has the solution for you. He had a CCFL tube left over from an abandoned LCD monitor backlight repair, and decided to see what it would look like as a wheel light. The result turned out fairly well. He had to figure out how to mount the 8 batteries plus … [Read more...]
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