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DIY LED-Illuminated Sleep Chamber
Bulldozer2003 writes "'Finally something both nerdy AND sexy engineers can do.' It sounds like an oxymoron but this guy took a cue from The Vos Pad and decked out his own dorm room bed with Light Emitting Diodes. They're even fully adjustable 'allowing me to create every color of the rainbow.' Total cost, according to him in an email: 'Around $25, the LEDs cost me about $0.25 a piece in bulk, and the potentiometers cost about $6 a piece from digikey. I got the LM317 voltage regulators as a free sample from Texas Instruments. Lots of companies will ship you free samples, its a good deal for college students.'"
...guaranteed to be sex free, no doubt!
Step 1: Light up dorm room with ludicrous light display.
...
Step 2:
Step 3: Women!
"Why should I go to a club when I can stay at home, avoid long queues, drink cheaper alcohol, set up my own light show, and have the chance to choose your own music?"
ummm.......
READY.
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So do you mean free as in speech, or free as in beer?
Looking at the guy's facebook site, "sexy engineer" is the last ajective I'd use
Apparently Huggy Bear has ordered one!
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." - Ian Malcolm (Jurassic park)
Jaj
Are they trying to shoot themselves in the head by using HTTPS?
and it still is, take my word as a girl for it :-)
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Clicking on no has no major effect that I can discern except for the guy's last box where the "Get Firefox!" icon/image is missing...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
How long until every DIYer or EE dude posts on how they could have done it cheaper, more efficiently, and with their own favourite microcontroller?
Plastic Surgery!
All your base are belong to Google.
Lots of companies will ship you free samples, its a good deal for college students. laugh.....
Man who lights his bed
with a multicoloured led
will never get head
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
So this light display -- it's like a warning beacon of sorts, right? A light house, if you will, to warn the woman that the sexy guy she met at the club is an engineer and it's time to start preparing her excuses and leave, lest she crash against the inexperienced rock of his virginity.
The Cheat throws a pretty good rave.
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I bet his roomate absolutely hates him
25$ for 50,000 hours worth of birth control. What a bargain!
what a dork:m /imagep ages/image1.htmlm /imagep ages/image11.htmlm /imagep ages/image4.html
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/Pro
what a girl:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/Pro
what a dork?
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/Pro
[...] than those I have in my head [...]
You have LED's in your head? OMFG! Way cool!!
Martin
Would those even be light-emitting LED diodes?
You're not getting any either, huh?
Samples are great but if every idiot starts sampling everything
;)
Every idiot already does. I mean, just listen to the radio.
u could have saved yourself 25 bucks and the time and had a light switch rave instead !
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>Would those even be light-emitting LED diodes?
Light-emiutting light emitting diode diodes? Yes they affirmatively would not wouldn't be.
And please, no more smart areses talking about getting laid. With that attitude you never will
Dude, this story was posted at 2:39 am.
Need I state the obvious for you???
If we are reading slashdot at 3:00 a.m. in the morning, there is a rather (extremely) high likelyhood that readers here do not have the company of a female.
Unless it's a mother telling us to turn out the lights.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Light-emiutting light emitting diode diodes?
- org ?
Almost like aitch-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot
8 points for creativity 10 points for lustful intentions 1 point for soldering
I agree. I have a hard time having wet dreams if the lights are left on.
I don't think I could live there. It'd freak me out, like Kramer in the Kenny Rogers Roasters episode.
*looks at linux server in one corner*
:-)
*looks at linux laptop as recently reviewed on slashdot*
*looks at LED star canopy over bed*
most girls would run from such things. some have their own, thankyouverymuch
-Leigh
ps. Ubuntu is love.
That's right, keep yourself locked up in a your room with your roommate and smoking that dope.
Only thing is, knowing you're locked up in a room with your roommate, should indicate to you that he isn't some pretty damn hot chicks.
Nothing says romance like LED lights and an extra-long twin bed.
You can tell by the fact that he wears socks with sandals that he's not trying very hard to hide his geekosity with fashion.
No A.C., you're confusing "gorgeous" with "not fat" again. You'll understand one day, I promise!