So a week or so ago we decided to get Jason a computer. He's started playing some learning games on our laptop and not only does he enjoy them, but it seems to be helping him get some concepts down so we figured he might as well have his own. (Not to mention he's almost 3)

Anyway, I helped some guy that I met off of Craigslist fix his push reel mower in exchange for a really good deal on a used computer. Then I found a guy in Vancouver that was offering an LCD monitor for $25. Like all things that seem to be too good to be true, it kind of was. When we got home to try it out we found out that the backlight didn't work. In other words, the monitor comes on but doesn't light up and you can't see anything.

After discovering that one of the lamps was burnt out which caused the inverter to fail, parts would cost about $50, I decided I needed to do a ghetto hack. $6 dollars of cheap LED lamps from the dollar store and behold, the ghetto LED LCD hack.

You'll see that there are some pretty noticable hotspots, that's the best part, Jason doesn't notice at all. Afterall, he's just a kid. The dark picture shows the monitor next to the laptop for a brightness comparison.