LED Hack – How to Make Your Own Colored LEDs!

Here’s a cool hack for those of you who want to save money on buying colored LEDs, simply buy the white LEDs, sand it a bit, and color it!

The result is rather fascinating and could possibly save you a lot of money if you need different colors for your project.

Now just hook your LED on a battery and see if you did a good job (see photos ). Once you light it up and you see there is still some white shining through, just color some more over those white spots. Colored LEDs are more expensive then white LEDs and harder to find. So now you can easily…

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