
Amit (Sudden motion sensor / Mac OS X Internals book) has some code and article on controlling the lighting on a Macbook pro - Im sure we'll see some type of music aware disco mod soon.... Here's what you can do -- "Retrieving readings from the ambient light sensor. Retrieving and setting the LED brightness value of the backlit keyboard. Initiating an LED fade to a target brightness value over a specified duration. Retrieving and setting a display's brightness." [via] - Link.
Experimenting with light on Macbook Pro
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