August 13, 2006

DIY Wafer-thin keyboard

Need a space saving keyboard? Make your own! “After taking an ancient “Microsoft Internet Keyboard” apart, turns out it’s a rather simple mod to convert it to a wafer-thin, touch sensitive, transparent beast. Little bit of duck tape, and it’s perfect :). How it works: There are 3 plastic layers. Two, on top and bottom, have the contacts that touch each other to form a keypress. The middle one has

LED Dash Light Hack

Tired of replacing burnt out dash lights? Why not replace them with LED lights, you will never have to touch them again. 🙂 “Now you will need to assemble your LEDs. Take an LED and figure out what side is positive and the other negative. The longest leg of an LED is positive (anode; a), and the shortest leg is negative (cathode; k). Another way of checking which side is