You’ve been searching for the reliable and user friendly backlight controller, but it’s seen like a hard task, as you cannot even find the controller that suited your needs? Well, since you’ve failed to find it, why don’t you just spend some time and give yourself a new kick start, by simply create a Router Term for your own use?

For your information, the Router Term is a serial terminal for the Edimax BR-6104KP router, which running with Linux. It has 16×2 LCC display with the backlight and PS/2 Keyboard (Look it carefully, it’s “PS/2″ not “PS 2″!). The barin is a microcontroller ATmega8.

The Router Term can be used for the following purposes:

1. Shell terminal
2. Controlling the backlight (F1 hotkey)
3. TAB for command completing, BACKSPACE

Ok, how to deal with the Router Term? Well, you just need to press the “Ctrl+C” buttons at the same time to shut down the running program. It is simple and hassle free indeed! Read more »