Dan Larsen’s posterous

Dead Apple Aluminum Wireless Keyboard?

Weirdest thing:
My Apple aluminum wireless keyboard suddenly stopped working.
It flashed the green light continously for about 10 seconds, then died totally and didn't work after that.

Of course I tried changing batteries and everything else I could think of... Including Googling the problem ;-)
Finally I got geeky and started checking solderings... nothing... no problems...

Since that, the keyboard has just been lying around...
Until! I read this facebook note: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=59651387321
With disbelief, I found a piece of tinfoil, rolled it lightly and dropped it into the keyboard, then the batteries...

I pushed the on/off button and.... GREEN LIGHT FLASHING!!!
The keyboard is now working!

I don't know a lot about circuits, but this is just stupid!
But hey! It's works! I'm happy :-)

Hope this ends up helping others too! :-)