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As someone who has trouble sleeping and particularly needs dark sleep I wish it had been impossible to make a blue LED.
by seanhunter 3y ago
As someone who has trouble sleeping and particularly needs dark sleep I wish it had been impossible to make a blue LED.
- adammarples 3y agono, we've put it on your headphones, your electric blanket, your everything. the blue led must be seen.
- BadHumans 3y agoSeems like an extreme stance for a easily solvable problem.
- not_a_shill 3y agoThat's how you can tell it's a joke
- tekla 3y agoIt's HN. There is a very strong possibility its not.
- tekla 3y agoYou could, you know, tape over them or something, about 5 mins of work.
- k_roy 3y agoand tape falls off, can impede functionality depending on the device, etc
- tekla 3y ago> tape falls off So re-apply it when it falls off after 5 years > can impede functionality Give me an example where covering up a blue LED impedes functionality.
- Exoristos 3y agoWhen it's under a grill shared by a vent?
- k_roy 3y agoAn example? https://www.belkin.com/magnetic-portable-wireless-charger-pad-7.5w/P-WIA005.html https://www.belkin.com/magnetic-portable-wireless-charger-pa... The offending LED is the black spot in this picture: https://www.belkin.com/dw/image/v2/BGBH_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-master-product-catalog-blk/default/dwf910af2a/images/hi-res/a/118691546_WIA005-WHT_BoostCharge_MagneticPortableWirlessChargerPad_Back_WEB.png https://www.belkin.com/dw/image/v2/BGBH_PRD/on/demandware.st... Look no further than that. Note, I have the black one from Amazon, and it's no longer for sale, so maybe they realized the mess-up. It's been my charger for iPhone current-gen since July of this last year and it's horrible. The LED on this thing is not EXACTLY blue, but it's birthed of the exact same hellhole, and close enough in general color to count. So let's walk through this: 1. It's piercingly bright in the exact perfect shade of light that you can't help but notice everywhere in a dark room. 2. It's designed in a way that projects that thing across the room like a spotlight. 3. The light comes out of a silly small surface on an inconvenient placed spot on the edge of the shell. Meaning electrical tape lasts about 5 minutes. 3. I'm not a stranger to cracking things opens, but with this thing is hermetically sealed, I haven't been brave enougth to do it yet. I tried to just shove a needle in there to short out the LED, but it's probably some kind of surface mount and I couldn't hit it. Alternatives to cracking it open have been stuffing like 4 inches of electrical tape in the hole with a dental pick/needle, and then covering it up with more tape to seal it in. This took a while, but it also lasted at least two months. But again, not permanent. The point is, anything that could potentially be primarily be used in a bedroom, shouldn't be a cool light.
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- jpl56 3y agoNail polish on my bluetooth keyboard LED for the win.
- p1mrx 3y agoI put a few layers of kapton tape on my monitor LED, so the bright blue is now a dull green, and the orange standby color looks the same.
- pcdoodle 3y agoCool!
- amelius 3y agoThe color blue is responsible for a lot of misery.
- wwilim 3y agoDa ba dee, da ba da
- zehaeva 3y agoMaybe try an eyemask? I will admit the feeling takes a little bit getting used to but I get way better sleep with it than without.
- hawski 3y agoI wonder if there is a part that could replace signaling LEDs without emitting their own light. I think transflective LCD could work like that. Make it small, round and with two contacts like a diode.