M1730 Keyboard Lighting Modding?

I decided to make a new thread for this, 'cos I'm very interested in doing it =-D Someone posted that the M1730 has an LED under each key. I'm wondering how hard it would be to add different colored LEDs under the keys. I have a feeling it wouldn't be possible to add multiple different colors, like in the speakers, so what I was thinking was simply 7 or so colors, mixed and matched under each key to look prettier =-P

Does anyone know how difficult this would be? If anyone has pics of how the keyboard looks disassembled (I only have 1 keyboard at the minute so I can't check) please post pics =-)


Edit: I wanna turn my keyboard into something as colorful as this:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/color-changing-luxeed-u5-led-keyboard-is-a-rave-at-your-fingerti/

 

Sorry for the double posting, looking a bump and some wisdom :-D

The Engineer came out today to fix my backlight, and I got a new keyboard. The old keyboard was for scrap so he was cool enough to let me keep it <3

Here's the back of the keyboard. The screws were all covered by a light plastic layer, I simply penetrated it with my screwdriver


Here's the keyboard when 'opened'. Two layers on top of the next picture, which is where I'm stuck



And now the final picture. This is where the shiny lights live...but I can't see any way to get at them/modify them! Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get to the LEDs - or would it even be possible? If I *do* get at them, is it possible to change them, or is this a lost cause?



Edit: After ripping the entire keyboard apart, there doesn't seem to be any LEDs. My friend thinks that the white 'paper' is actually light emitting when a charge is ran through it. No modding for me =-(

 

Just found your post

I don't know why this didn't pop up when I searched earlier. Thanks for posting pics of the keyboard, gives me something to work off of. I've seen EL Paper before online but I am unable to locate anything now.

I found this keyboard on Xoxide.com: http://www.xoxide.com/super-slim-acrylic-keyboard.html

It says that it's super slim so and it's "EL", so it must be similiar. I might try gutting one of those and replacing the El Paper in the m1730 keyboard.

 

Might it be possible to spray paint the 'white paper', or use colored marker pen to taint the color? though this is a pretty permerant solution...

 

I thought that myself Quicklite, my friend however said that would end up making the chemicals that make it glow stop working. Making it a colored piece of paper

I'm not even 100% sure if that is how it works, but I've ripped the keyboard apart and no visible lights =-P

 

The white electroluminescence sheet is what makes the glow for good info about how they work watch this episode of systm http://revision3.com/systm/kiki

 

One thing that confuses me though is some sites have it listed as an "LED keyboard". Surely the EL sheet doesn't count as LEDs?

 

...Maybe stick thin sheet of colored tracing paper on top of that? I dunno...

 

The engadget keyboard is LED backlight but the M1730 keyboard is a EL sheet to change the colour you should just get some transparent coloured plastic sheets like the ones used on stage light

 

Hm. I don't even know where I put that bloody keyboard now. I think I binned it =-P I might get another spare then give that a try, I'm sure our art department in uni could spare some. If anyone else has a spare keyboard now they can try it on give us pics on how it goes =-)