Modern gaming keyboards can display different lighting effects. An RGB expert combines 120 such keyboards into one screen and displays the shooter classic Doom on it.
Hardly any gaming PC today comes without RGB lighting. Meanwhile, almost all components of a computer are also available in a glowing version, to create a small RGB artwork. Accordingly, you can also let your peripherals shine in various color variations.
The experts from SignalRGB for the individual control of RGB LEDs have now demonstrated what can be done with 120 illuminated gaming keyboards. When combined, all the keyboards form a giant screen, which our colleagues from 3djuegospc.com also reported on.
120 illuminated gaming keyboards form a huge monitor wall
What kind of screen is this? The screen was presented at this year’s gaming fair Pax East in the United States. The construct consists of a total of 120 gaming keyboards that have been linked together.
The keyboard model used is not known. Assuming that each input device has at least the standard layout (in Germany 105 keys), that results in approximately 12,600 keys that can together display various color effects without special macro keys.
This number is sufficient to represent the old shooter Doom on the keyboard-monitor wall and to play various videos of internet memes. The image quality is not optimal, but it is greatly enhanced by the available color tones.
How many colors are possible? The RGB color space is formed from the primary colors red, green, and blue. It is used in PC monitors, TV screens, and smartphones. By varying the weighting when mixing the three primary colors, different colors are produced.
The key factor is the color depth used. The color depth defines how many colors can be displayed in total. Computer monitors typically use 8 bits. This assigns a value between 0 and 255 to each of the three primary colors.
If you calculate the combinations (256 x 256 x 256), you get 16,777,216 different shades of color that can be used (via mechanical-keyboard.org).
What technology is used? To utilize all the color possibilities of the RGB color space, special software is used. Using the tool SignalRGB, each key is addressed individually, allowing for custom lighting adjustments.
SignalRGB is freely available and can be used by anyone who has a compatible motherboard and illuminated RGB components in their gaming PC.
What do others say about the construct? The keyboard wall is very well received in the community. A 30-second video on YouTube and TikTok featuring a gameplay scene from Doom is being commented on extensively.
- blackwolf0933 finds: “That’s incredibly impressive.” (via YouTube)
- hamburger454 is technically interested and asks on YouTube: “What is the refresh rate of the keyboards?”
Referring to the trend of playing Doom in as unusual a way as possible, sorry_youre_stupid states on TikTok:
- “People will play Doom on everything imaginable except a computer.”
The screen wall made of gaming keyboards is very impressive, but it was not the first idea to utilize RGB lighting for such purposes. An inventor also turned to SignalRGB for his project, combining nearly 200 RGB fans: Inventor combines 192 case fans into a screen with 3,840 LEDs, “playing” Tetris and Doom on it
