[HN Gopher] LED Matrix Earrings
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       LED Matrix Earrings
        
       Author : nrabulinski
       Score  : 133 points
       Date   : 2024-02-20 20:34 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mitxela.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mitxela.com)
        
       | shaunxcode wrote:
       | would definitely buy these!
        
         | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
         | Same. These could easily sell for a few hundred USD.
        
       | The5thElephant wrote:
       | This is very cool and I know a LOT of people who would buy and
       | wear these. If you productized these (possibly make them
       | rechargeable and simply way to program the LEDs) they would
       | definitely sell.
        
       | liamkinne wrote:
       | I wonder what the smallest circular OLED display is. There are
       | 01005 LEDs (the next size down from the 0201's used here) but at
       | that point an OLED display is essentially the same thing.
        
         | dekhn wrote:
         | I see models down to 0.5" (12.7mm) but they all seem to have
         | large connectors you'd have to work to hide/connect an
         | microcontroller to.
        
       | TazeTSchnitzel wrote:
       | Very happy to see someone did this, because I had the same idea
       | many years ago, but it seemed infeasible.
        
       | imzadi wrote:
       | Could you include ir LEDs to blind cameras? Is that a thing?
        
         | Aurornis wrote:
         | With the size of that battery, it might work for a second or
         | two.
        
       | jbl0ndie wrote:
       | Any video that references Mike Harrison as inspiration is all
       | right with me. https://electricstuff.co.uk/
        
       | shadowpho wrote:
       | Pretty cool to see 2x2 layer sandwich of pcbs. It's going to be
       | cheaper than 1-2-1 pcb at small scale. That's the same thing
       | Apple does.
        
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