Part 1 of this three-part series introduced the technical and engineering steps necessary to design an LED display system from individual LED lamps. Part 2 provided the remaining steps needed to ...

A LED light pipe is an optical fiber or a solid transparent plastic rod for transmitting light from an LED mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) to the user interface. Light pipes transmit up to 80 ...

This reference design presents Z8 Encore! XP microcontroller used as a LED flashlight controller. The reference design uses Zilog’s Z8F082A microcontroller to control the power and functional modes of ...

We often hear the ongoing debate of Agile versus Waterfall. And while Agile often wins, not every project or company has the product-based model that best fits its method. What we don’t hear about is ...

This costly to make, but rugged, consumer product shows solid mechanical and electrical design. Paul Rako shines a light on what makes it tick. I bought a 90-W equivalent LED floodlight at Home Depot ...

The exterior conceals new technology behind the bezels that make possible such features as adaptive beams and LED matrix beams, for example. Often, each LED has its own lens that is held by a fixture, ...