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Step 2Prepare the LEDs

Prepare the LEDs
A number of people have tried using ping pong balls as diffusers for LEDs and one issue is that the LED has a lens on the top that focuses the light into a bright spot above the lens. Some have suggested putting tissue in the ball or sanding the lens to diffuse the light more and more evenly light up the ball. Well, rather than gently sanding down the lens, I decided to just snip off the top portion of the LEDs while trying to avoid damaging the internals. Actually, it worked quite well.

Again, I needed 64 of these.
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