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DIY LED-Illuminated Sleep Chamber

Posted by timothy on from the good-in-bed dept.

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.'"

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  1. The LED Pimp Bed... by truesaer · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...guaranteed to be sex free, no doubt!

  2. It's simple... by hwoolery · · Score: 5, Funny

    Step 1: Light up dorm room with ludicrous light display.

    Step 2: ...

    Step 3: Women!

  3. What the guy is probably thinking.... by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.......

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  4. Obligatory Pun by nijk · · Score: 5, Funny

    So do you mean free as in speech, or free as in beer?

  5. HTTPS? by nick0909 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are they trying to shoot themselves in the head by using HTTPS?

  6. It sounds like an oxymoron... by sexysciencegirl · · Score: 4, Funny

    and it still is, take my word as a girl for it :-)

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    1. Re:It sounds like an oxymoron... by JaJ_D · · Score: 4, Funny

      errr what? "Sexy engineer" or " sexysciencegirl " :-]

      with tongue firmly in cheek
      Jaj

  7. [OT] Security Info warning!!! by advocate_one · · Score: 3, Funny
    got this for that guy's page...
    This page contains both secure and nonsecure items

    Do you want to display the nonsecure items

    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...

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  8. Step 2 by Polarism · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plastic Surgery!

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  9. Haiku by Ligur · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man who lights his bed
    with a multicoloured led
    will never get head

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  10. Let me see if I got this right.... by Vladan · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  11. Re:with all those lights... by Bitsy+Boffin · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Cheat throws a pretty good rave.

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  12. agh by miseryinmotion · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet his roomate absolutely hates him

    1. Re:agh by JayTeeUK · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not as much as his University's network administrators:

      "Forbidden
      Available bandwidth quota for this filesystem has been exceeded.
      (/bkpeters/www/LEDBed/index.html)

      Please, try again later."
      --
      James Tait, Programmer and Free Software Advocate
      JID: jayteeuk@wyrddreams.org
  13. How long do LEDs last? by falzer · · Score: 5, Funny

    25$ for 50,000 hours worth of birth control. What a bargain!

  14. what a dork by Britz · · Score: 4, Funny

    what a dork:
    https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/Prom /imagep ages/image1.html
    what a girl:
    https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/Prom /imagep ages/image11.html
    what a dork?
    https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/Prom /imagep ages/image4.html

  15. Re:Samples by Ghostgate · · Score: 3, Funny

    Samples are great but if every idiot starts sampling everything

    Every idiot already does. I mean, just listen to the radio. ;)

  16. Re:what the hell has /. become by eclectro · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  17. And the score is... by pylonz · · Score: 5, Funny

    8 points for creativity 10 points for lustful intentions 1 point for soldering

  18. correction. by Pandora's+Vox · · Score: 4, Funny

    *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.