An earlier Idea For Design (“Hardware-Based LED Blinking Control Eliminates Software Overhead,” Sept. 27, 2007, p. 52) described a very interesting way to offload the software overhead required for a ...

With the size of electronic parts and batteries these days, very small items are obviously becoming more and more viable. [Yann Guidon] has made some awesome pieces of LED jewelry using a minimal ...

Computer monitors often include one or more LED indicator lights that show these devices' operating status. Monitor manufacturers can build a set of signals -- made up of sequences of LED flashes and ...

Google’s mission for 2014 is to make its Blink rendering engine faster and lighter on mobile platforms. To do this, it’s planning not simply to improve the Blink code. The company is investigating the ...

Many of us have run a Blink program on a microcontroller before. It’s effectively the “Hello, World!” of the embedded space. However, few of us have ever thought about optimizing our Blink code to be ...