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A lot of nice gaming keyboards come with backlit keys, but you don't get any say over the color of the light. Some don't even let you make fine-grained adjustments to brightness. Luckily, it is possible to make some alterations on your own.
José Faria discussed adding custom lighting to his Razer BlackWidow Ultimate keyboard at his blog, cocasdaneve. The keyboard came with blue lights that he didn't really care for, and the included software only offered a few limited brightness settings. The easy part was replacing the blue LED's with store-bought 3mm white ones. It seems like the BlackWidow's LED's popped out without much fuss, but some keyboards might require you to take out a few boards and resolder the lights. Personally, I'd want my number keys, function keys, and letter keys to use different colored lights, but you can customize it however you wish.
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José then proceeded to build his own controller into the keyboard to adjust the keys' brightness based on ambient light. The process is pretty complicated, and involves patching in a custom AVR chip, but he includes all the code and some diagrams in the blog post. If you're brave enough to try it yourself, be sure to check it out. If not, at least enjoy the video of his completed masterpiece.
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Custom LED Color and Brightness on a Razer BlackWidow Ultimate | cocasdaneve via Hack a Day
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Is it possible to change the colour of the backlight for the keyboard of a MBP to something a little more contrasting? On a grey morning, the backlight lights up just enough to blend in with the grey of the keyboard. My wife thought blue or green, I say red or orange. I know my suggestions would toy with the fabric of the integrity of the design concept, but it sure would help!
I wonder how safe it would be sticking a cut of some theatrical lighting colour filter under the keys? Joe
15' MBP C2D, MDD Dual 1GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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