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2025: As The Hardware World Turns

If you’re reading this, that means you’ve successfully made it through 2025! Allow us to be the first to congratulate you — ...
GitHub

Arduino Library for WS2812B LED Strips

This library currently supports any board based on the ATmega168, ATmega328P, ATmega32U4, or ATmega2560 which runs at 8 MHz, 16 MHz, or 20 MHz. The LED strip's input connector has two pins that should ...
GitHub

Arduino Library for the GAMMA function to adjust brightness of LED's etc.

This library provides a GAMMA lookup class. It is typical used to change the intensity / brightness of a LED to match the human eye. When a LED is given 50% PWM it looks far brighter for the eye. This ...
The Ambient

Philips Hue Festavia Globe Outdoor String Lights review

Philips Hue’s Festavia Globe Outdoor String Lights take the charm of the original Festavia range and dress it in a far more ...
IEEE

Filter-free AC direct LED driver with unity power factor and low input current THD using binary segmented switched LED strings and linear current regulator

Abstract: A compact LED driver with high power factor and low harmonic distortion is proposed for the AC direct LED lighting. For the compact implementation of LED lamp, all the bulky passive ...
IEEE

Power driver topologies and control schemes for LEDs

Abstract: This paper deals with power electronic drivers for LED strings. Due to the enormous progress recently achieved in the technology of light emitting diodes (LEDs) it can be expected that LEDs ...