The story behind this clever little hack starts with an off-the-shelf sensor, the kind with an IR LED and a phototransistor pointed in ... had the idea to use the sensor for wireless IR programming.

Posted in LED Hacks Tagged candle, ir sensor, LED candle, mosfet, ws2812b Use The Force To Turn On This Lamp May 27, 2017 by Rich Hawkes 8 Comments ...

Take a Si1120 Ir-LED sensor and seven infrared LEDs. Add in one ultra-low power C8051F930 MCU. Mix thouroughly. The result is Silicon Labs' $199 Si1120 Evaluation Kit. It could also be your next ...

Sphero has announced another rolling ball robot called the Sphero BOLT. The Sphero BOLT follows in the company’s ethos of having a commitment to education-based products, but comes with some ...

3. IR LED driving circuit. Based on experience, the TIP121 Darlington transistor is a good option for this application. This device will allow us to drive a high current load with a low base current.

IR LED for position sensing. FOVE also uses infrared sensor technology to track a user’s position and movements in order to integrate these into the VR action. Several Osram SFH 4253 TOPLEDs are ...

LED chip packaging house Bright Led Electronics has landed orders for one billion infrared LED sensor modules worth NT$2 billion (US$66.7 million) through a China-based maker of LED whiteboards ...

Taiwan-based PlayNitride has developed a 0.39-inch monochrome micro LED display specifically for use in AR devices as well as a panchromatic micro LED display with 1,411 PPI (pixels per inch ...