Thinkpad Style Keyboard Light


[Sprite_tm] keeps coming up with nice work. This time he sent in his thinkpad style keyboard LED lighting solution for his toughbook. I know, you’re thinking… ‘it’s a LED…’ He used an ATtiny13 to monitor the caps lock LED. If it’s operated two times in succession, the LED is turned on and off. Nice, clean and effective.

[By the way, Part 2 of my diy projector how-to is up on engadget. Look for part 3 later Tuesday.]

Led Video Cube Project

leds

this is the hotness, over 1,000 leds make a 3d cube which shows severely low-res video.

this project is an exercise in representing the real world with leds arranged in a cube. using video as the input, the computer takes the image, reconstructs the data and displays it in the cube.

i’m going to drop them a note and see if i get a how-to cooking, this could actually make tv watchable again.

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