One of the frustrating things is that netbooks, because they are cheap, usually lost in premium features such as backlit keyboards. Of course, because they are economic owners often feel happier with the idea of opening of piracy and, in general, and that’s what members of my Dell Mini forum vrg3 made his netbook. Want to remain able to write, while in the darkness, they drilled a well of a white LED webcam from the A90, which is activated or deactivated by pressing Ctrl.

He describes it as the DIY version of ThinkLight Lenovo, and uses an LED rescued from a string of Christmas tree lights with a microcontroller ATTINY13. The latter controls the Ctrl key through the key pins, hold the button down for few seconds and turns off the light on and off.

Of course, if you feel less confident in microcontroller programming then you could mount a switch or button somewhere, but of course that would probably require cutting more holes in their netbook. While the above picture is not dramatically impressive as vrg3 that the fault of the camera instead of implementing the LED itself.

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