Re: usb lamp

From	Adrian C <email@here.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: usb lamp
Date	2011-06-26 18:24 +0100
Message-ID	<96p89lFukbU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<itt7qh$err$1@speranza.aioe.org>

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On 22/06/2011 18:13, pete wrote:
> hi all,
> can anyone recommend good and cheap LED usb lamp, which I would be able
> to turn on and off via software?
> thanks.

Find an old discarded USB keyboard, trace the connections to the scroll 
LED and attach a transistor to switch external current to your bigger 
LED light, sabre, whatever.

Find / write some software to toggle it.

-- 
Adrian C

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