More about light (490)

1-07-2003 | Elsewhere in the Small Circuits Collection there is an article about connecting an LCD to a PC (see ‘LCD Status Display’). There is also an...

1-07-2003 | Interesting, surprising as well as scientifically useful visual effects can be obtained by employing coloured LEDs instead of the normal lam...

1-07-2003 | The flight simulators from Microsoft have improved much over the years. A great deal of attention has been paid to realistic flight behaviou...

1-07-2003 | This circuit ensures that you will never again forget to switch on the lights of your car. As soon as the engine is running, the dipped beam...

1-07-2003 | The microcontroller-driven switch described in this article allows one lamp to switched on and off as well as dimmed, all using an RC5-compa...

1-06-2003 | It is generally known that the forces of nature can be destructive, as proved time and again by storms, tsunamis, tornados, tidal waves and...

1-06-2003 | The special feature of this night light is that it has a switch-off delay. This is achieved using a microcontroller with an integrated 16 bi...

1-04-2003 | The unit is designed as a stand alone disco lighting controller but can be used for driving eight sets of Christmas tree lights, shop displa...

1-04-2003 | A handful of high-intensity LEDs is sure to provide new accents in room lighting. In traffic lights and other signalling equipment, they sav...

1-02-2003 | Ordinary proximity detectors use infrared sensors which respond to the warmth of the human body. But there’s a simpler way: we can use ambie...