Keyboard backlight mod? Possible?

[erre197]

Hey!

 

I am thinking about buying my first mechanical keyboard and i have desided to buy the cheapest possible and thinking about if is possible to mod backlight to it.

 

Maybe carbon fiber wrap too.....and those purple things will change color.

 

Keyboard i may use for this mod is Tesoro Tizona G2n, link down below.

 

http://tesorotec.com/tizona-tkl-mechanical-keyboard-and-tizona-numeric-pad/

 

As low as 42 dollars (39 euros) from local store.

 

Has anyone made such a mod?

 

If you know something about this kind of mods i am telling about, Please tell?

 

As i said, i am a bit of noob in modding and my English is not so good.

[mikat]

Hey!

 

I am thinking about buying my first mechanical keyboard and i have desided to buy the cheapest possible and thinking about if is possible to mod backlight to it.

 

Maybe carbon fiber wrap too.....and those purple things will change color.

 

Keyboard i may use for this mod is Tesoro Tizona G2n, link down below.

 

http://tesorotec.com/tizona-tkl-mechanical-keyboard-and-tizona-numeric-pad/

 

As low as 42 dollars (39 euros) from local store.

 

Has anyone made such a mod?

 

If you know something about this kind of mods i am telling about, Please tell?

 

As i said, i am a bit of noob in modding and my English is not so good.

leds in the keys is almost impossible, you could try to mount led strips between the keys if there's enough room

[xQubeZx]

LED's in the keycaps as on "real" rgb keyboards will not work. Lightningstrips between or under the caps might work but will be hard to do I think.

[ThinkWithPortals]

 

I think you'd end up expending more time, effort and money doing this than you would just buying a backlit keyboard.

 

Or, if seeing in the dark is a must, a non-backlit keyboard and a desk lamp.

[erre197]

LED strips may bee good idea, but there is a small problem.

 

Powering them up.

 

And yes seeing in the dark is a must have, because i am attending a local lan event in two months from now.

[erre197]

http://www.antec.com/soundscience/products_Bias-Lighting.php

 

2 of those could work.

 

Hack those cables together?

[erre197]

Or i could just buy a corsair k70 copy with kailh browns,,,

[W-L]

Or i could just buy a corsair k70 copy with kailh browns,,,

 

I would suggest getting a new keyboard the K70 is pretty good, it wouldn't really be possible to add LED's or strips in the keyboard.

[null_]

If you get a keyboard with Cherry MX switches its fairly simple to add LEDs to each key, there is a hole in each switch to mount the LED and you just wire them up manually. It requires some soldering/de-soldering, basic electronics knowledge, and a lot of time but its do-able. Its probably not worth the time and effort of doing it yourself unless you absolutely have to have a certain keyboard that doesn't come back-lit. I've done it before for some keys but not entire keyboards.

[Talamakara]

about 20 years ago Microsoft released it's first generation of ergonomic split keyboards. There was lots of space under the keys at that time for a keyboard. It was also around the same time that flexible neon cables were being released. They were thin enough that they fit under the keys without interruption.

I pulled the keyboard apart , drug the lines through the system, ontop the plastic frame, but under the keys. Then shaved off the opening in the keyboard cable port for the second power cable. For something I did as a teen it looked great. I'm sorry i don't have photos. 

But back to the point if you have a keyboard with the spare space inside of it, you are going to need very thin LED cabling or you will literally have to drill holes in the plastic frame inside the keyboard. So is it doable yourself, yes. will it be easy no. I would also suggest buying a keyboard you don't care about and if you wreck it while practicing then you are not out anything.