BLUEEEE Re: [sdiy] Latest project completed!

[Richard Wentk]

At 02:43 24/01/2005, WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 1/23/05 6:32:13 PM, xyzzy at sysabend.org writes:
>
><< Blue LEDs were cool 3 or 4 years ago when they were still rare-ish and
>expensive, but now they're showing up in toasters.  Its over. :-) >>
>
>Thank you, Tom.  Someone needed to say that.
>
>I love the idea of replacing "cool" blue LED's with red ones.  Now THAT'S
>cool.
>
>Red LED's are historically and culturally significant, you know, like
>incandescent light bulbs and "Pong" are.  Blue LED's?  They have the cultural
>significance of an Avril Lavigne CD.

Besides *everyone* knows the higher optical frequencies present in blue 
LEDS cause aliasing which destroys that fat vintage sound. ;-)

Richard