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# Alienware AW410K RGB Controller
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This project provides control to the RGB lighting on an Alienware AW410K
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keyboard based on ADC readings from an attached light dependent resistor using
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a webpage served by a Raspberry Pi Pico (2). Each key on the keyboard is
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individually configurable from the webpage and can be set to automatically
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adjust brightness based off the ambient lighting.
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[YouTube Video](https://youtu.be/uY1V1W5CdWM)
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## Setup
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### Hardware
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You will need the following hardware to make the device:
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- Raspberry Pi Pico or Raspbery Pi Pico 2
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- USB extension cable
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- light dependent resistor such as GL5528 (specific part number may vary)
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- 10k ohm resistor (resistance value may vary)
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You will need to cut the USB extension in half and connect the wires from the
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female end to the Raspberry Pi Pico (2). The default configuration is to attach
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the USB's green wire to pin 1/GP0 and USB's white wire to pin 2/GP1. You will
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also need to connect the red to 5V VBUS/VSYS (since you'll be powering from the
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USB host device, VBUS should be fine) and the black to any ground pin. Pin 38
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is the closest and most convenient. While you can connect the Raspberry Pi Pico
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(2) to the host device using the micro USB port and a micro USB cable, since
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you have already sacrificed half of the USB extension cable, you might as well
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use the male half to create a standard USB-A connection. If you wish to do so,
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then simply connect the red and black wires of the male connector end to
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VBUS (5V) and GND, respectively. For the data wires, you can solder them to the
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two test points TP2 and TP3 on the back of the Raspberry Pi Pico (2). The white
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cable goes to TP2 and the green cable to TP3.
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The LDR should then be connected to the ADC2 pin (pin 34/GP28) and 3.3V (pin 36)
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or alternatively to the ADC_VREF (pin 35) and the regular resistor between ADC2
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and any ground, including ADC_GND (pin 33). The results look something like
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the following.
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The individual wires on the USB can be fragile, so hot glue or other strain
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relief is a good idea. There is also a [model for a 3D printed
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enclosure](pico-usb-ldr.stl) that you can use to place the Pico (2) inside with
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a hole for the LDR to detect ambient light.
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## Software
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Flash the aw410k_rgb.uf2 file found from the latest
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[release](https://git.kkozai.com/kenji/aw410k_rgb/releases) to the Raspberry Pi
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Pico (2), and connect the keyboard to the female USB port and insert the male
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USB connector of the device into your host device such as PC.
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To load the UI for configuring the RGB lighting, open a browser to the page
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at http://aw410k.usb, or if that doesn't load, to http://192.168.40.1. From the
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webpage, you can click on any individual key that you want to configure and
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change the color using the color selector or by manually inputting the RGB
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color value into the text boxes. To finalize setting the color for the
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selected key(s), click on the "Set Color" button.
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To save the lighting configuration to the Pico (2) so that it loads the next
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time it is powered on, click on the "Save" button under the "Flash Memory"
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section. If you make unsaved changes and want to reload the configuration from
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memory, you can also click the "Load" button to reset to the last saved setting.
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If the checkbox next to "Adaptive" is selected when setting the color, the key's
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brightness will automatically adjust with the ambient lighting, as determined by
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the ADC reading of the LDR. Leaving it unchecked will set the RGB color to be
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constant regardless of the ambient light level.
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The mute button has special behavior when set to adaptive mode. It will toggle
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between the user-configured color and red each time that it is pressed as a
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way to indicate whether system sounds are muted or not. The keyboard will
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always boot in the "unmuted" setting, so if your system starts off muted,
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the LED color on the keyboard and your system may not match.
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## Licensing
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This software is distributed under the [GNU General Public License version
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3](LICENSE), with the exception of the libraries in the following section.
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## Credits
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The project uses code from the following sources:
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- [OpenRGB](https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB/) for code related to
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Alienware's [RGB lighting protocol](https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB/-/tree/master/Controllers/AlienwareKeyboardController/AlienwareAW410KController)
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on the AW410K keyboard licensed under GNU-GPLv2
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- [Pico-PIO-USB](https://github.com/sekigon-gonnoc/Pico-PIO-USB/) for templates
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used from the [host_hid_to_device_cdc](https://github.com/sekigon-gonnoc/Pico-PIO-USB/tree/control-keyboard-led/examples/host_hid_to_device_cdc)
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example released under the MIT license
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- [TinyUSB](https://github.com/hathach/tinyusb) for templates used from the
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[net_lwip_webserver](https://github.com/hathach/tinyusb/tree/master/examples/device/net_lwip_webserver)
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example distributed under the MIT license
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