VU meter effect with peak hold and decay You’ll learn how to make your products responsive to music, speech or noise with RGB LEDs and FastLED. Instead of driving LEDs, you could of course also drive vibration motors, servos or pneumatic actuators. After all, audio, once processed, is just data.

Selecting the right diffuser for COB LEDs, LED strips, and matrices You’ll learn the basic theory of light transmission and diffusion and see diffuser tests in order to reduce glare, multi-shadows and self-illumination, maximising your...

Better dimming and flicker reduction using a 12-bit timer and look-up table You’ll learn to use a precomputed look-up table and changing a microcontroller’s timer, here an Arduino compatible, for larger range and higher-speed pulse...

Better dimming and flicker reduction using a 12-bit timer and look-up table You’ll learn to use a precomputed look-up table and changing a microcontroller’s timer, here an Arduino compatible, for larger range and higher-speed pulse...

Get off the grid with solar power How to drive a high-CRI SMD LED with an automatic day/night P-channel MOSFET switch, solar panel and battery storage for 7 hours at full brightness. You will learn...

Get off the grid and cut the cord How to drive a high-CRI SMD LED from a rechargeable 3,7V Li-Po battery for 3,5 hours at full brightness. You will learn to understand and build one...

Get off the grid and cut the cord How to drive a high-CRI COB LED from a rechargeable 11,1V Li-Ion battery for 12 hours at full brightness. You will learn to understand and build one...

Get off the grid and cut the cord How to drive a high-CRI COB LED from a rechargeable 11,1V Li-Ion battery for 12 hours at full brightness. You will learn to understand and build one...

All the basics you ever wanted to know about LEDs

Joystick colour temperature and dimming control You’ll learn how to control all aspects of light with a single user interface element. Warm. Cold. Bright. Dark. Memory function. How to drive two high-CRI COB LEDs and...