From: "Mauricio Jancic"


> Hi,
> A couple of weeks ago, I saw an article, pdf perhaps, which explains
> how to make good light guides for leds. I cant find any reference to
it, and
> I don't remember how I get to it. Has anyone ever seen something like
that?
>
> By "light guide" I mean a piece of plastic (for example acrylic)
> that guides the light of, usually, a LED and can "guide" it trough
curves
> and stuff like that using simple optic technics. That reference gave
some
> pointers on angles, air gaps and things like that...

Digi-Key sells tons of this stuff.  They call it/them "light pipes".

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