DIY Dell Mini 9 Keyboard Lights
He describes it as the DIY version ThinkLight Lenovo, and it uses an LED recovered from a string of tree lights Christmas with a microcontroller ATTINY13. It monitors the CTRL pin through the keyboard press and hold for a few seconds and it switches the light on and off.
One of the things netbooks frustrating is that, because they are cheap, you often miss the luxury features like backlit keyboards. Of course, because they are cheap owners often feel happier with the idea of opening and generally hacking, and that’s exactly what Dell Mini vrg3 My forum member has its netbooks. Wanting to still be able to type while in the dark, he drilled a hole for a white LED by the camera of A90, which is activated or deactivated by pressing Ctrl.
Of course, if you feel less confident about programming microcontrollers, you could create a platform switch or button to place somewhere, though of course this will probably require more holes to cut your netbook. Although the above picture does not look impressive dramatically, according vrg3 is the fault of the camera rather than the performance of the same LED. [via slashgear]
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