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LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish

Technology Connections · demo · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Technology Connections experiments with filtering white and colored LEDs to make holiday lights look less garish. He explains why narrowband LED strings look harsh compared with incandescent bulbs.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN links it in any LED Christmas light discussion as the explanation of why they look off and how to fix it.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “we can't talk about LED christmas lights without linking to this video by tech connections”

    Explains why narrowband LED lights look radioactive versus incandescent.

    beala, 2024-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?”

  2. “he filtered white ones”

    Filtering white LEDs to make less garish holiday lights.

    nyanpasu64, 2021-07 · Recommendation · in “Why we're blind to the color blue”

  3. “White light in blue plastic is where it's at.”

    Explains why blue LEDs look too blue; white light in blue plastic is better.

    bseidensticker, 2024-02 · Recommendation · in “It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: led, christmas lights, color, incandescent, diy

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