Look what boredom can lead you too!!!!!

[joatam316]

I was getting board this weekend because i had my new windows kit in the mail and i had nothing to do. So I started to stare at my keyboard lights and got board of that cheap green glow. i decided to open up my keyboard and see how they were connected. To my luck those lights were nothing more than 3mm led's. So after a quick visit to Radio Shack and a little help from my soldering kit, those cheap 3mm green led's were replace with big, bright, 5mm blue leds. Now my PC looks so much better becacuse my entire system now is white and blue. hehe!!:D

i recomend you try this at home, it's relatively simple and makes your system look better

[Dissolved]

i would, but my KB is too cheap.. id rather buy a logtech one and mod that baby.. do u have any pics? :)

[ColdMiser]

Yeah, lets see pics. I would do the mod, but use a Logitech Cordless keybard, so there are no LED's on it.

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by ColdMiser
Yeah, lets see pics. I would do the mod, but use a Logitech Cordless keybard, so there are no LED's on it.

there arent any led's? LOL
will id do a mod to have it have leds then :)

[joatam316]

I'll try to get pics in the next few days. I'll have to go to my friends house and have him lend me his camera. Don't worry if you have a cheap keyboard, mine's is too. I've had it for three years!!! When i took it apart, i just cleaned the board and every key one by one (took me about 30 min) and man did my fingers hurt when i finished. Now my keyboard looks brand new !!!

[joatam316]

Also, if you really want to make you keyboard nice, you could get those blinking leds or the ones that have two colors!!! I didn't do it to mines because it would not have matched.:D

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by joatam316
I'll try to get pics in the next few days. I'll have to go to my friends house and have him lend me his camera. Don't worry if you have a cheap keyboard, mine's is too. I've had it for three years!!! When i took it apart, i just cleaned the board and every key one by one (took me about 30 min) and man did my fingers hurt when i finished. Now my keyboard looks brand new !!!

mines 5 months old, and the lettering is starting to wear.. i dont think id wanna spend 15 dollars on nice leds to mod this KB if its not gonna last that long..

[WeaponX]

I'm not sure the two color ones would really do anything other than display one single color. The way the work is if the power goes through the LED one way it'll be one color. If it goes in the other way, it'll be a different color.

[joatam316]

I guess that you have a cheap keyboard Dissovled beacuase i've had mine three years and i am using it constantly and the none of the keys are fading. Also, the two color leds that i am reffering too are ones that can be seen as diffrerent colors from diffrent angles

[ColdMiser]

Originally posted by Dissolved


there arent any led's? LOL
will id do a mod to have it have leds then :)

There are no LED's on it for a reason. It is cordless. It is only powered by 2 AA batteries. LED's are not worth the power they would draw. Logitech's solution to this is to have onscreen indicators for the 3 locks. They put little icons in the taskbar. I deactivate those though. It is hardly a critical indicator.

[Darrenct]

You know what would look really nice,
put some kind of light in the keaboard that would glow from around all the keys... I wonder what would work for that.:eh?:

[nodoze]

You can see how someone used glow wire to backlight the keys on their keyboat at: http://www.beingseen.com/instructions.html

Their approach would work on my keyboard, but I thought I might be able to use an EL sheet to do the same thing.

[Element-Xero]

electro luminescent (EL) cable such as gloWire.

Its a reasonably common mod. Search google or something for it and i bet theres a stepbystpe guide...I think i saw one somewhere....

[Element-Xero]

beat me to it!

ps- I though I was obsessed with caffeine....lol nodoze

[Darrenct]

Where can you get el sheet, I can think of a million cool uses for that.

[Diggrr]

Right here.....http://www.beingseen.com/

Sorry, lurking again.

[ThePunkGeek]

woah my whole system is blue/red except for my eyboard. umm umm eheh off to radio shack i go lol thanks

[drunkmonkey]

I here all this talk about logitech's wireless keyboards. why would you want a wireless keyboard?(unless you had a couch in ur comp. room.) wireless mice are cool, though.

[ColdMiser]

Originally posted by drunkmonkey
I here all this talk about logitech's wireless keyboards. why would you want a wireless keyboard?(unless you had a couch in ur comp. room.) wireless mice are cool, though.


So you wouldn't have to deal with a wire.

Really though. Right away I can think of like 6 desks that I've worked at where the keyboard wire get snagged on something, caught in keyboard tray rollers, etc. I think the best answer to your question is to try it and see for yourself. I got the combo because it only costs a little more than the mouse alone. Now I can grab the keyboard and lean back with the kb on my lap several feet away from the computer. It's also good for having a computer hooked to a TV. Keep the kb on the coffee table.

When you suddenly don't have that wire in the way, you really appreciate it.

[JFettig]

buck fifty!

[JFettig]

sorry people but BLUE IS GETTING OLD!!!!!!!!!! i think blue sucks! this comp is red/black my next setup is gonna be yellow/black!

[Oni]

Originally posted by maskedgeek
sorry people but BLUE IS GETTING OLD!!!!!!!!!! i think blue sucks! this comp is red/black my next setup is gonna be yellow/black!

Blue/black 0wn5 (http://human.home.dhs.org/computer/) j00!

[JFettig]

dude that looks awesome!!! but what color are the leds? i hope they arent blu3!

[ColdMiser]

Originally posted by Oni


Blue/black 0wn5 (http://human.home.dhs.org/computer/) j00!

What does this say? I don't have a l33t translator. English please.

[JFettig]

Originally posted by ColdMiser


What does this say? I don't have a l33t translator. English please.

YOU WEINER!

i was checkin the pix then i saw no bluez till i saw the window lit up!......