- cross-posted to:
- videos@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- videos@lemmy.world
The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.
The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.
That’s true (here’s an interesting video on the subject of colored light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYbdx4I7STg), but as mentioned at https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M?si=i8wjHjaKRaQbf23b&t=1516, once you have a blue LED, you can use a phosphor to convert the light to a range of longer wavelengths.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=uYbdx4I7STg
https://piped.video/AF8d72mA41M?si=i8wjHjaKRaQbf23b&t=1516
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.