One of the easiest tricks to keeping a house warm (or cool), is to open and close the blinds in time with the sun. Of course, that's only helpful if you're home all the time to do that. Instructables ...

Pulse Width Modulation is definitely the preferred method of dimming an LED with a microcontroller, but we were interested in hearing about a different method called Binary Code Modulation. BCM does ...

Suitable for powering camera modules, the AAT2870 light management unit (LMU) is basically a negative charge pump that fully supports ambient light controlled backlight brightness using photo diodes.