Demand for LEDs continues to grow across industries — indoor/outdoor lighting, display sectors, and automotive lighting — thanks to their higher energy efficiency, lower heat output, and ...

A miniaturized driver manages red, green, blue, and white LEDs for maximum impact with minimal system CPU burden.

Can LED drivers be too smart? Can QJTs become reality? A dc-dc converter that extends battery lifetime by 50%? Find out the answers to these questions in the latest edition of PowerBites. Fabricated ...

Differentiated LED lighting systems that improve energy efficiency, simplify installations, and facilitate data gathering and monitoring have become requirements in domestic, office, and industrial ...

Mick Jagger famously said that you cain’t always get what you want. But this is Hackaday, and we make what we want or can’t get. Case in point: [Andrew Tudoroi] is drawn to retro LEDs and wanted one ...

That means inside every LED bulb are tiny circuit components -- and their soldered contact points -- which are far more vulnerable than the diode itself. The Lighting Research Center of the Rensselaer ...

The regular Hackaday reader no longer needs to be reminded about how popular the ESP8266 is; they see the evidence of that several times a day. But what might not be quite so obvious is that it isn’t ...