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What You Should Know about the Organic Light Emitting Diode!

Do you have any ideas what this Organic Light Emitting Diode about? Well, most of the people will think it is only an ordinary diode like others, where the truth is this little stuff is far beyond your imagination!

For your acknowledgement, an Organic Light Emitting Diode, which sometimes also known as Light Emitting Polymer (LEP) [...]

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DIY a Simple and Cool Infrared Receiver By Your Own!

You’re wish to have a universal infrared receiver, which it can be used to control all your electrical appliances, such as the TV, VDR, DVD, Stereo, MP3 or even your computer, without even having to stay at the keyboard all day long? Well, then it’s about time to create your very own Universal infrared receiver!
Basically, [...]

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Charlieplexing – It’s a Cylon-eyes and Not Related with Charlie Angels!

First of all, do you know what this “Charlieplexing” is? It is an electronics techniques, which developed by Charlie Allen, a genius and talented engineer at Maxim.
According to Charlieplexing theory, it’s involved minimizing the use of I/O pins on a microcontroller to drive a maximum number of LEDs. In addition, the n drive pins can [...]

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Mind to Have A LED Dining Table at Your Home?

You are bored of the same old dining table and like to have some fun with it? OK, you asked for it, and then you got it!

It’s not a hard task to DIY this fancy and intrigue LED dining table. All you need to have is some patient and a little hard work and there [...]

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LED Matrix – The Shining Electronic Sign Board that You Can’t Even Resist

You would like to create a LED Matrix, but the only matter is you don’t want to get too fussy with soldering each LED individually?
Well, there is always a good alternative here and it’s doesn’t costing you too much.

Those components that needed are:

Two 5×7 LED Matrix Displays
Solder Breadboard
Transistors
Resistors
4017 Chip (For switching in between the columns)
Wires, [...]

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Laser Spirograph – the combination of the Past and Beyond

The 70’s is considered as the most wondrous and fantastic moment. With all of the bling bling accessories, the funky disco dancing style and all of the colorful outfits, this is simply marvelous!
If you born and raised up in the 70’s, then you must be very familiar with the Sprirograph toys, which it enable you [...]

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Feel the Colorful World with LED Painter PCB

Do you want to try something different with the LED? If you do, then today is your lucky day.
By using the Texas Instrument TLC5940, you can create a 16 channel RGB LED controller, which known as “LED Painter PCB” too. This PCB has been improved with a neater layout and it is allows easy connection [...]

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