Not mushroom for improvement.04:33

The latest cluster of LED mushrooms from China just arrived and rather tragically they’ve made them safe (ish) by soldering and sleeving the LEDs into position instead of having them in sockets.
It’s probably more as a cost saving exercise, but spoils the hackability of the product a bit. They’ve also got rid of the pressure contact arrangement inside the plug and used wires to jump from the PCB to the mains pins. That’s a big improvement, since the other connection arrangement was shady at best.
I’ve also realised that they INTENDED for the LEDs to be changeable by the buyer for customisation of the light which is nice. I’d originally thought it was just to make it easier to swap out dead LEDs. That’s a really nice feature.
They’re also offering variants with different fauna which is a nice option too.