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Lectronz<p>Now in stock on Lectronz: Lux Lavalier Heart- Wearable Light Art Pendant <a href="https://lectronz.com/products/lux-lavalier-heart-wearable-light-art-pendant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lectronz.com/products/lux-lava</span><span class="invisible">lier-heart-wearable-light-art-pendant</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://leds.social/@jasoncoon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jasoncoon</span></a></span><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Displays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Displays</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LEDs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lights</span></a></p>
Bornach<p>Vladimir Pantelic Musikelektronik vpme.de win the unofficial prize for best LED display at the London Synth Expo 2025</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LEDs</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Eurorack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eurorack</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ModularSynth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ModularSynth</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/electronicMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electronicMusic</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LondonSynthExpo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LondonSynthExpo</span></a></p>
Stylus<p>Just playing Super Mario All Stars on an RGB matrix panel as you do.</p><p>To keep things together better, I 3D printed a bracket in two pieces, the subject of a work in progress playground note: <a href="https://adafruit-playground.com/u/jepler/pages/3d-printed-bracket-for-4-64x64-2mm-rgb-matrix-panels" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">adafruit-playground.com/u/jepl</span><span class="invisible">er/pages/3d-printed-bracket-for-4-64x64-2mm-rgb-matrix-panels</span></a></p><p>This is using a 3rd party breakout board with 3 HUB75 connectors. I recently added the ability to drive up to 3 connectors to Adafruit Piomatter, as well as temporal dithering.</p><p>In this specific interest, I'm using 2 connectors to drive a total of 4 64x64 panels. <code>--num-planes=6 --num-temporal-planes=2</code> means I'm getting effective 18 bit color, albeit with the least significant 2 bits being shown on alternate refreshes, creating a tiny amount of 44Hz color shimmer.</p><p>All these "go faster" tricks together give me about 88Hz refresh rate on the panel, despite that we're still limited to about 10MB/s of data between the PI's main CPU and the PIO peripheral that's acting as the LED controller.</p><p><a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/Adafruit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adafruit</span></a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/Pi5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pi5</span></a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/HUB75" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUB75</span></a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LEDs</span></a></p>
Kernel Bob<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@3dprinting" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>3dprinting</span></a></span> And of course there will be LEDs for illumination, and an ESPHome (or maybe two) to monitor and control it.</p><p>🧵 4/N</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FilaBillyHumidor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FilaBillyHumidor</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ESPHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ESPHome</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LEDs</span></a></p>
diyelectromusic<p>I've just posted about a couple of neat I2C modules that I'm planning to use with a MIDI controller at some point.</p><p><a href="https://diyelectromusic.com/2025/03/09/duppa-i2c-midi-controller-part-1/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">diyelectromusic.com/2025/03/09</span><span class="invisible">/duppa-i2c-midi-controller-part-1/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Duppa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Duppa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/I2C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>I2C</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LEDs</span></a></p>
ToroidalCore<p>Flickering lights. I switched to a different string of solar lights, luckily these seem to have held up.</p><p><a href="https://hackers.town/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LEDs</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LightPollution</span></a> May Harm Our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ocean</span></a>’s Water-Filtering ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a> Engineers’</p><p>ByAllison Eck <br />Friday, May 1, 2015 </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeaSquirts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SeaSquirts</span></a> are the ocean’s ecosystem engineers, siphoning <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>plankton</span></a> from the water and keeping <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoastalEcosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CoastalEcosystems</span></a> healthy. They’ve done their job for millennia relatively unscathed, in part because they have no predators. But now, they have one: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ManmadeLight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ManmadeLight</span></a> [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArtificialLight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtificialLight</span></a>].</p><p>"A new study published in Biology Letters suggests that the artificial light from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cities</span></a> might prevent the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/larvae" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>larvae</span></a> of some marine species—like sea squirts, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/barnacles" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>barnacles</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corals</span></a>—from finding appropriate habitats to settle in. Without landing on the right substrate, sea squirt larvae have little chance of surviving.</p><p>"Thomas Davies, an ecologist at the University of Exeter in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UK</span></a>, wanted to see which species are the most affected. He studied the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MenaiStrait" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MenaiStrait</span></a>, which separates the mainland of northwest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wales</span></a> from the island of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anglesey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anglesey</span></a>. This area is largely unaffected by light pollution, which led Davies and his team of experts to suspect that an experiment conducted there would provide a good measure of the effect light pollution has on populations. </p><p>"By their measurements, the '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SkyGlow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SkyGlow</span></a>,' or ambient manmade light reflected onto the water by the atmosphere, is at a minimum—it barely amounts to the light emanated from the moon at night.</p><p>"To investigate the effect of artificial light on the area, they placed 36 plastic panels into the water and waited to see which organisms would settle on the panels. Some panels were exposed to light from cool, white <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LEDs</span></a> that emitted about the same amount of light produced by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/streetlights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>streetlights</span></a>, while the control panels mimicked just the small amount of ambient light scattered in the sky.</p><p>"The team retrieved the panels after 12 weeks to see how much of the panels’ surface area had been colonized. Sea squirts and sea bristles, both filter feeders, had lower colonization rates on the artificial light panels than the controls. On the flip side, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/foulers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>foulers</span></a> like barnacles ended up clinging to the artificial light panels, which could explain why they so often attached to boat hulls and jetties. Barnacles in particular cost the global economy millions of dollars in reduced fuel economy and cleanup costs.</p><p>"Here’s Katie Wheeling, writing for Science: 'Overall, the study found that the lights either encouraged or discouraged settlement in 39% of the taxa, or groups of species, living on the panels by the end of the experiment period. Artificial light may be negatively impacting marine ecosystems by driving away certain invertebrate species, like filter feeders, and attracting others, the team reports.</p><p>"'More work needs to be done to understand how brightness, cycle of exposure, and wavelength of light affects individual species. In the future, experts may be able to configure exact spectra that work well with ocean species but also fill our own needs. For now, the team’s complex results indicate that we may need to pay more attention to how manmade light is damaging marine environments.'"</p><p>Source:<br /><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/light-pollution-may-harm-our-oceans-water-filtering-ecosystem-engineers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/ligh</span><span class="invisible">t-pollution-may-harm-our-oceans-water-filtering-ecosystem-engineers/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LEDs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkSkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DarkSkies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LightPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Extinction</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Why <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LightPollution</span></a> is a solvable <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environmental</span></a> crisis</p><p>Excessive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OutdoorLighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OutdoorLighting</span></a> is deadly to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>animals</span></a> and takes a toll on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanHealth</span></a> and wellbeing, too. But when it comes to large-scale environmental problems, this one may be a relatively easy fix.</p><p>By Alissa Greenberg<br />Friday, April 1, 2022 </p><p>"In recent decades, lightbulbs made with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LEDs</span></a> arrived, a revolution in energy efficiency with seemingly little downside. After all, an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LED" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LED</span></a> bulb converts some 90% of the electricity it uses into light, whereas a conventional incandescent bulb only converts about 10%. And LED bulbs are touted as lasting up to 25 times longer.</p><p>"But the physics of LEDs make them fundamentally different from incandescents. While those traditional bulbs put out warm white light made of all colors mixed together, LEDs filter blue-rich light through a specialized phosphor material, producing light that appears white to the human eye but is still more blue-intense than incandescents’ light.</p><p>"But <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlueLight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlueLight</span></a> is also the most disruptive to our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nighttime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nighttime</span></a> environment because it mimics daylight, disrupting the hormone production and sleep cycles of both animals and humans. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Melatonin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Melatonin</span></a>, one of those hormones, helps the immune system destroy renegade cells dividing out of control. That can lead to other health issues, including heightened rates of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cancer</span></a>. And, 'we’re not the only ones who produce melatonin,' says Mario Motta, a cardiologist and trustee of the American Medical Association. Even amoebae produce melatonin'—meaning even amoebae might be vulnerable to light at night. </p><p>"The impacts of light pollution are evident everywhere from human health to astronomy research, but they come into particular focus in the recent phenomenon of global species <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dieoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dieoffs</span></a>. Between 100 million and a billion birds die every year due to light pollution, according to Massachusetts IDA chapter president James Lowenthal. New York City recently dealt with a huge die-off, 'with flocks of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MigratoryBirds" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MigratoryBirds</span></a> slamming into buildings,' says Sarah Bois, an ecologist at the island’s Linda Loring Nature Foundation and a member of Nantucket Lights. 'They’re attracted to light.' A 2015 study at New York’s 9/11 'Tribute in Light'' installation showed an increase from 500 birds within half a kilometer of the light beams before they were turned on to 15,700 just minutes after.</p><p>"The issue is a double whammy for birds because they rely on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>insects</span></a> for food—and those populations are plummeting, with light pollution contributing significantly to the so-called "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InsectApocalypse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InsectApocalypse</span></a>.” By some estimates, one third of insects attracted to light sources at night die before morning, either due to exhaustion or because they get eaten. And according to a study in Germany, the number of insects in that country alone that die after being attracted to lights can number 100 billion or more in a single summer. </p><p>"Some starve to death searching for food that should appear bluer at twilight but is lit up amber under streetlights, says insect conservationist Avalon Owens, a doctoral candidate at Tufts University. Some are thrown off by light just the way we are, because of their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CircadianRhythms" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CircadianRhythms</span></a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollinators" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pollinators</span></a> whose schedules are altered by artificial light miss the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>flowers</span></a> they’re evolutionarily paired with, if the flowers naturally close and open with the warmth of the sun. And insects that rely on circadian rhythms for their yearly development don’t hibernate in time for winter and freeze to death.</p><p>"On <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nantucket" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nantucket</span></a>, these phenomena are of particular concern because the island is home to a remarkably healthy population of northern long-eared <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bats</span></a>, which are endangered. Like many birds, the bats rely on insects for food and are easily dazzled by light, putting them in increasing jeopardy. Jack Dubinsky, director of the Maria Mitchell Aquarium on Nantucket, says he’s concerned that adding increasingly lit-up nights to the challenges of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, water quality, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ecosystem</span></a> collapse could put huge pressure on some already struggling species. 'The more curveballs we throw, the less likely they’ll be able to find their way,' he says.</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/light-pollution-led-nantucket-solutions/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/ligh</span><span class="invisible">t-pollution-led-nantucket-solutions/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkSkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DarkSkies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StreetLights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StreetLights</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LightPollution</span></a> from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StreetLamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StreetLamps</span></a> linked to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InsectLoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InsectLoss</span></a><br /> <br />"There are practical solutions that don't compromise public safety, they say, including dimming streetlights in the early hours, fitting motion sensors or using colour filters to cut out the most harmful wavelengths."</p><p>25 August 2021<br />By Helen Briggs</p><p>"Scientists say light pollution may be contributing to 'worrying' declines in insects seen in recent decades.</p><p>"In a UK study, artificial street lights were found to disrupt the behaviour of nocturnal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>moths</span></a>, reducing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/caterpillars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>caterpillars</span></a> numbers by half.</p><p>"Modern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LED" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LED</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/streetlights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>streetlights</span></a> appeared to have the biggest impact.</p><p>"There is growing evidence that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>insect</span></a> populations are shrinking due to the likes of climate change, habitat loss and pesticides.</p><p>"Factors are complex and varied, including the steady loss of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>forests</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heathlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>heathlands</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/meadows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>meadows</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marshes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>marshes</span></a>, overuse of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pesticides" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pesticides</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pollution</span></a> of rivers and lakes.</p><p>"The use of artificial lights at night-time has been proposed as another driver of insect decline, although the scale remains unclear.</p><p>"The researchers say their study, published in Science Advances, is the strongest evidence yet that light pollution can have detrimental impacts on local insect populations, with consequences for the birds and other wildlife that rely on caterpillars for food.</p><p>"'In a local setting we can now be quite confident that light pollution is important, but what's less clear is if we're looking at a whole landscape,' said lead researcher Douglas Boyes of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.</p><p>"'If insects are in trouble - as we believe they are, and have evidence to support that - perhaps we should be doing all we can to reduce these negative influences.'"</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58333233" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/science-environme</span><span class="invisible">nt-58333233</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LightPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkSkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DarkSkies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LEDs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Extinction</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Paywall] Our nights are getting brighter, and Earth is paying the price</p><p>Electric lights have revolutionized our lives, but as illumination increases, the toll on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wildlife</span></a> and human health is becoming harder to ignore.</p><p><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nights-are-getting-brighter-earth-paying-the-price-light-pollution-dark-skies/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationalgeographic.com/science</span><span class="invisible">/article/nights-are-getting-brighter-earth-paying-the-price-light-pollution-dark-skies/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LightPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkSkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DarkSkies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LEDs</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@davidho" class="u-url mention">@<span>davidho</span></a></span> A good idea. But <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LEDs</span></a> should be in warm colors, to help cut down on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LightPollution</span></a>.<br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkSkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DarkSkies</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>You’re Not Imagining It, Blinding Headlights Are a Real Problem</p><p>Adaptive driving beam headlights are now legal and could help, but it will probably take a few years.</p><p>By Collin Woodar</p><p>"If you ever drive at night, there’s a good chance you’ve noticed an increasing problem with blinding headlights. In some cases, people are simply driving around with their high beams on, but that doesn’t fully explain the problem. Anyone who’s flashed their lights at an oncoming driver to let them know their high beams are on, only to get hit with their actual high beams can tell you that. One thing is for sure, though — it’s not a good thing.</p><p>"The first is probably the most commonly understood, and that’s the fact that Americans keep buying taller and taller vehicles. Add six inches of ride height, and the lights get six inches higher. The report cites a JD Power study that says about 53 percent of vehicles sold here in 2010 were trucks or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SUVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SUVs</span></a>, but by 2021, that number had risen to almost 79 percent.</p><p>The final factor is the color of the lights themselves. A halogen bulb’s yellow-tinged color is warmer than the bluer, white light that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LEDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LEDs</span></a> emit and therefore gentler on the eyes. So while a halogen and an LED headlight could be equally bright, the human eye will see the LED one as brighter and harsher. 'The eye is sensitive to those blue wavelengths, but the light meter is not,' Mark Rea told Insider, a professor at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine."<br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlueLight" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlueLight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LightPollution</span></a></p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://jalopnik.com/you-re-not-imagining-it-blinding-headlights-are-a-real-1850112863?utm_source=pocket-newtab" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jalopnik.com/you-re-not-imagin</span><span class="invisible">ing-it-blinding-headlights-are-a-real-1850112863?utm_source=pocket-newtab</span></a></p>
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