Is it possible to make your own LED christmas lights?

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: herm0016
you can buy a string of 50 from home depot for about 6 bucks. 50 leds, the resistors and the connectors would probably cost you 20 or 30 bucks. plus where are you going to get the weather proof "faceted" lens things so that the led ends up with a wider dispersal angle so you can see them more than 20 degrees off axis?

No way. (at least I highly doubt you'll find a string of 50 LED lights that cheaply) They're still quite a bit more expensive than the regular cheapy lights that Home Depot carries (which aren't LED, afaik)

i would think a strand of 50 would be even cheaper than 6 dollars. i buy LEDs by the thousand for my development board and they are .07 each. im only buying 1000 at a time, too! although you are probably right...it seems LEDs are way overpriced at retail stores, so 6 dollars actually sounds low for HD.