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American and 2 Japanese Physicists Share Nobel for Work on LED Lights

American and 2 Japanese Physicists Share Nobel for Work on LED Lights

Three physicists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for revolutionizing the way the world is lighted. The 2014 physics award went to Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, for “the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light […]

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Breakthrough in LED construction increases efficiency by 57 percent

Breakthrough in LED construction increases efficiency by 57 percent

With LEDs being the preferred long-lasting, low-energy method for replacing less efficient forms of lighting, their uptake has dramatically increased over the past few years. However, despite their luminous outputs having increased steadily over that time, they still fall behind more conventional forms of lighting in terms of brightness. Researchers at Princeton University claim to

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Getting Started With the Particle Photon Internet Controlled LEDs

Getting Started With the Particle Photon (Internet Controlled LEDs)

In the previous instructable I showed you how to get started with IoT using the nodeMCU, in this instructable I will be featuring the Particle Photon which is an easy to use IoT device to get started with designing IoT projects. The particle photon is smaller than the nodeMCU and features STM32 ARM Cortex M3 microcontroller on

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Arduino MKR IoT Carrier Rev2 board built for home IoT projects

Arduino MKR IoT Carrier Rev2 board built for home IoT projects

The official Arduino develop in team and engineers have this week introduced its new MKR IoT Carrier Rev2 specifically designed to help build Internet of Things projects. Equipped with five capacitive touch buttons, LCD display, IMU, humidity, pressure, temperature, light, gesture and proximity sensors. The tiny MKR IoT Carrier Rev2 offers a wealth of scope for your

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Jar of Fireflies

Jar of Fireflies

This project uses green surface-mount LED’s along with an AVR ATTiny45 microcontroller to simulate the behavior of fireflies in a jar. (note: the firefly behavior in this video has been greatly sped up in order to be easier to represent in a short film. The default behavior has significantly more variance in its brightness and

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