The LM3914 LED bar graph driver was an amazing chip back in the day. Along with the LM3915, its logarithmic cousin, these chips gave a modern look to projects, allowing dancing LEDs to stand in for a ...

Figure 3 showed the ideal waveform for the LED current, which does not take the response time (t r) of the comparator into account. The t r of a comparator is the time it takes the output to change ...

Recently, I wanted to build a Sleepy-LED Eye as an add-on indicator for a small personal project. My idea is a near-replica of the iconic breathing pattern used for the “sleep” indicator in Apple ...

Usually, an MCU is considered a digital device. By default, its output voltage level can be either high or low and nothing in between. With the requirement to create an LED brightness control, the ...