a backlit keyboard

[whooping_a_panda]

hey i wanna make a keyboard that has all the keys lit up with some sort of LED or other lighting material to light the keys up, would it be possible to find a keyboard with transparent keys, kinda like a macs keyboard. All i can find are multimedia keyboards with a bunch of crap on them i dont want...

Do you think EL lights would work well for this?

has anyone ever tried this?

[WyrmMaster]

Iv seen it done with glowwire using a standard keyboard so the light just shines up between the keys. Looks pretty cool too.

[labrat]

I did that to my keyboard... you want to see something cool??? get a black keyboard and run blacklight glowire under it... wow, i did it to my board and WOOHOOO, it's so cool. Oh, one thing. If you still have to look at the keyboard to type (*cough mom*cough
) it gets really hard on the eyes

[whooping_a_panda]

haha that sounds really cool, and after checkin the prices on sheets of EL lights (120$ for a 8.5x11) i think glow wire is the way im goin, id still like transparent keys

ohh yea welcome to the forums :beer:

[Zelda Compost]

Haven't seen any posts on this thread for a while - but maybe some will find this interesting...

Light up keyboards...

http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/kboard1.htm

...Z

[MechCD]

You could actually go out and buy a Mac Pro keyboard (has added keys that are standard on a pc) and put some lights in that. Those keyboards work on anything with a USB port, including Playstation 2s :D

They are actually good quality keyboards, too bad they come with a crappy computer :D

[Audioaficionado]

Originally posted by Zelda Compost
Haven't seen any posts on this thread for a while - but maybe some will find this interesting...

Light up keyboards...

http://ledmuseum.home.att.net/kboard1.htm

...Z

Very nice link. Too bad they don't have 'em in full sized or ergonomic styles. I really need the numeric keys for key shortcuts.

I wonder if you can hook up both that keyboard and a numeric keypad to a usb port and not have them conflict?