Comment by unwind
3 days ago
I liked how this project used "reverse mount LEDs" [1] which are perhaps not known to everyone.
It means that instead of being mounted to a PCB and having the light shine "up" from the board, it instead shines down between the solder points, and you arrange for the PCB to have a hole there. It means all the components are on one side, but the light is emitted on the back which can be clean and/or have cool silkscreens etc. Nice!
[1]: http://www.kingbrightusa.com/category.asp?catalog_name=LED&c...
Mechanical keyboards have moved this direction (lighting on the back of the pcb, through a hole) so that the LEDs don't physically interfere with the hot-swappable key switches.