Keyboard Lighting Mod

Anyone thought about maybe placing one of these under the keyboard/trackpad area for some cool lighting effects?

http://www.environmentallights.com/...-ribbon-flex?gclid=CJ6tto3pypUCFQsQagodlXkWjQ

 

Yee Gods, that's a lorra dosh, what's wrong with:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sherwood-4704-U ... 771&sr=8-1

that I use


Keith

 

Well this would be placed *under* the keyboard for lighting up your keys/mousepad so you have a cool blue glow under your keyboard, not for something to shine light ON it.

Like this:

 

Unfortunately (as awesome as it would be) the keys don't have transparent letters, so you'd have blaringly bright key edges and holes and no actual way to see what key you're looking at.
Unless it created enough light to reflect onto the key (at this point it's probably too much light).
It'd be like the "Das Keyboard", actually... except glowing.

 

Well I am a touch typist, and I can touch type on the AA1 well enough in the light, but in a fair amount of darkness I have issues seeing where to place my hands, so I end up touching them too high, or too low. If I had a backglow on the keyboard I could at least tell what row I am on.

 

i'm getting some of these.
http://www.funkeyboards.com/glow.html

I'll post pics if they are decent.

 

I wonder if they will look like on the aone keys if they supposed to be for a full size keyboard.

 

there are little nubs on F and J to help with this

 

I found couple of websites with glowing stickers. It may be good way of modding keyboard. Look at this:

http://www.funkeyboards.com/glow.html
http://www.latkey.com/glowing_stickers.asp?SubCat=14
http://www.glow-key.com/
http://www.glowing-keyboards.com/
http://www.myglowkeys.com/

Advantage of this solution is simple - you don't have to do anything inside, no battery use, no cabling etc... I'm thinking about blue stickers...

 

I think the OP has a great idea, even if it seems silly. I read a lot about old Xbox mods with interior lighting; maybe one of those kits would work?
On this subject, has anyone had luck removing the keys without damaging them? Maybe we could remove some of the plastic on the underside of the keys (like,with a Dremel) so they would be translucent, thus letting some of the light shine through and illuminating the letter on the keytop.

 

i think its a good idea, last night i found myself wondering whether someone had developed a light up keyboard to fit the AA0...

anyone know anything?

 

Just A Thought Couldent You Take All The Keys Out Then Scratch The Underneath Off So It Would Shine Throught

 

I just recently ordered a set of Glow In The Dark sticker sets from Funkeyboards.com and in no way shape or form do they glow, reflect or anything. It was just a set of stickers that were blue, to say the least I was very disappointed. (I did contact the co and they did refund my acct less S&H)

 

well they do glow..just not glow in the dark

 

Hi:

I bought the blue stickers to match with my AOA, only to find they did not glow. I went to Compusa and exchanged them for the yellow, and I can see all the keys with only the light from the LCD screen. The other colors except the pink, seemed too dim in the store. A lighted keyboard would be better, but his comes close.

I can post a picture if anybody wants to see the result.

 

I'd like to see pictures of the yellow on the AAO

 

What about a blacklight shining down on the keyboard to test the white letter illumination. My thinkpad has a white LED shining down on the keyboard....