Category: Led

axio.ms published an update of the board and firmware of their SMD POV display. This device is simply 8 bright SMD LEDs and an AVR uC and makes use of the Persistence of Vision effect. You wave it about, and it writes messages in the air, with no wires, liquids or unpleasant bending!...

bobricius @ hackaday.io has designed an ultra thin custom display, requiring only 6 gpio pins to drive 30 leds. FEATURES: - 1.05x0.48 inches (26.67x12.22 mm) - 30 led - any color - ultra thin .... etc. on 0.8mm board - only 6 gpio - ideal for wrist watch 4 digit...

Peak is a smart lamp that combines light, encouraging messages and a personal improvement algorithm to help you form better habits. Peak is the first smart lamp that helps people form better habits in small, progressive steps. Developing new habits is challenging. We often resist...

A ceramic-based UV LED, the VLMU1610-365-135 from Vishay provides typical radiant power of 18 mW at 20 mA and 50 mW at 60 mA over a wavelength range of 362.5 nm to 370 nm. The silicone lens of the device enables extremely long lifetimes of up to 25,000 hour, compared to typical...

Barry Tigner @ edn.com has a design idea on how to power a LED from a 1.5V battery using two easily available transistors. A previous Design Idea describes a circuit that uses an astable multivibrator to drive an LED (Reference 1). The circuit in Figure 1 uses a simpler alternative...

joshua.brooks @ instructables.com describes how he build a night light using an Adafruit NeoPixel, ATtiny85 microcontroller, TSSP4038 IR receiver and some other easy available components. I'm giving some workshops in electronics in a few weeks, centered around an inexpensive, but...

Jon Roman and Donald Schelle have a design idea on how to simulate a high power led to test your driver circuit. Testing the driver circuit using LEDs, although easy, yields only typical results because the tests don’t factor in worst-case LED parameters and often generate...

by Julien Happich@ edn-europe.com Designed for infrared illumination for cameras, surveillance systems or machine vision, the Oslon Black SFH 4715A infrared emitting diode (IRED) boasts a low thermal resistance of maximum 11K/W, delivering a 850nm beam with an optical output of 770mW...