Here at Hackaday we’re big fans of device-reuse, and what [arturo182] has done with the Blackberry ... keyboard into an easy to use breakout board that exposes the key matrix, per-row backlight ...

There's a scene in the movie BlackBerry, released just last year ... When it gets dark there's a dedicated keyboard backlight so you can easily see what you're doing (or, if you're retro like ...