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Offline VentiLator

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Spacelight (senseless!)
« on: Sun, 17 October 2010, 04:09:02 »
having too much spare time + boredom and being in the mood for some random soldering action, i wanted to build an illuminated keyboard. since i didn't had enough LEDs and no resistors, i thought on illuminating only one little area of the keyboard, using the power from the roll-LED.

i used the Cherry G81 MY 3000 i got recently.

i soldered some wires on the LED contacts in the middle:


tested with one LED from a trashy rubberdome kb:


worked, soldered some more LEDs together, glued them on a piece of acrylic glas:


reassembled and here we go :D
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Offline VentiLator

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Spacelight (senseless!)
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 17 October 2010, 08:07:24 »
yes, too bad i have no voltmeter here, atm.
there should be 5V max, you can a lot with that...
currently i'm also thinking about integrating a USB-hub and maybe a little cooliehat from a joystick.
speaking about joysticks, they are well worth watching for! you get some pretty interesting controllers like thrust levers etc.
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