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DIY Ambient Light Keyboard Kit
An anonymous reader writes "
Do you envy new Apple 17" PowerBook keyboard?
Here's keyboard light
kits for all most any keyboard no matter which OS you are using. There's
NINE choice of colors (Light Blue, Deep Blue, Hot Pink, Yellow, White, Purple,
Neon Green, Lime Green, and Red) available but unfortunately not coming with
light sensor.
"
There are 5 comments up as I post this, and the site is already being slashdotted -- it's horridly slow. Last night I noticed on the Guerilla News Network story that the poster had gone out and asked the site admins if he/she could link to them prior to submitting it to the editors.
It is relatively well-understood that /. cannot mirror sites, for a large number of reasons. Moreover, the admins here are taxed (well, maybe...) as is, and aren't willing to fire off emails asking permission to post a link to someone's site every time they get a story that ends up on the frontpage. Nor should they have to.
Perhaps, though, we as posters could be mature and responsible? Asking for permission before DOS'ing someone's site via a link here would at the least be polite.
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
The server seems dead, but here is a mirror, be nice to it. http://www.moderngeek.com/keyboardlights/ This does not compare the the powerbook lighting at ALL, it looks cheap :p The powerbook lights up the lettes on the keys, and this just lights up behind the keys.
Ok, take it easy on me here...
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"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
fully illuminated keyboard, $99
Auravision EluminX Illuminated Keyboard
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>I'd really like to see a keyboard with a few programmable LEDs, or even
>better, a LCD screen. It'd be cool to have the memory/CPU use or
>something like that there.
Are you good with a soldering iron + dremel?
http://www.modelm.org/mboard/almost.JPG
http://www.modelm.org/mboard.html
Here's a list of utilites to use your keyboard LEDs as status indicators for various things: http://www.modelm.org/thing.htm
>But all I see instead is keyboards with annoying power buttons I tend
>to press in the least inconvenient moment. I just don't get it,
>what's the point of having it there? As if I needed to turn the
>computer on and off every 5 minutes.
Go to an electronics surplus store and buy an 80's IBM or Compaq keyboard. Nice feel, no superfluous keys. Real keyboards aren't made from plastic, any keyboards weighing less then 10 pounds is a toy.