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LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish

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.

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Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Technology Connections
Topic
led holiday lighting
Format
demo
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2021–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • This is a tangent, but I feel like we can't talk about LED christmas lights without linking to this video by tech connections: [VIDEO] the tl;dw is that most color LED lights work by emitting a single frequency of light. Compared to classic christmas lights, …

    beala on Hacker News · 2024-12
    In Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?

  • Technology Connections did some videos on "Making Holiday Lights Less Garish", where instead of using narrowband colored LEDs he filtered white ones: [VIDEO]

    nyanpasu64 on Hacker News · 2021-07
    In Why we're blind to the color blue

  • The blue is nicer if you do that. Technology Connections has made 3 videos over the last 5 years mostly centering around how he hates the blue led lights used in holiday lights. I think I've only seen the 2 yr old one, but now …

    bseidensticker on Hacker News · 2024-02
    In It was almost impossible to make the blue LED [video]

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