In my last post I mentioned removing the blue LEDs from the fascia of the case I plan to use for my FPGA project.\u00a0 I have an extreme dislike of blue LEDs – or at least of the seemingly universal pervasiveness of blue LEDs.\u00a0 We’ve been able to make them cheaply for, what, a decade now?\u00a0 Get over it, people!\u00a0 It’s not novel any more.\u00a0 They’re annoyingly bright and unpleasantly piercing.\u00a0 I’m tired of hiding them behind Post-it notes.<\/p>\n
So I replaced these obnoxious blue LEDs with bog-standard red, yellow, orange and green LEDs, which worked but weren’t really bright enough to shine through the diffusing layer on the case.\u00a0 (This layer’s task is presumably to make the blue LEDs vaguely bearable.\u00a0 Hint: you can make them much *more* bearable by not using them in the first place.)<\/p>\n
I ordered some high-brightness LEDs, somewhat skeptical about how different they’d be.\u00a0 The difference is dramatic, and the LEDs are now clearly visible even in strong light:<\/p>\n
There!\u00a0 Doesn’t that look much nicer than a row of blue lights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my last post I mentioned removing the blue LEDs from the fascia of the case I plan to use for my FPGA project.\u00a0 I have an extreme dislike of blue LEDs – or at least of the seemingly universal … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/retroramblings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/AsNatureIntended_small.jpg\" "\\"AsNatureIntended_small\\"")
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