Regular Hackaday readers are surely familiar with Nixie tubes: the fantastically retro cold cathode display devices that hackers have worked into all manner of devices (especially timepieces) to give ...

Different topologies used in developing LED drivers. Proper connections for buck, boost, and buck-boost configurations. Test results for the three topologies using the same LED string. 3. This LTM8042 ...

Every LED or light-emitting diode requires a driver. This driver is responsible for regulating the power to a LED or strings of LEDs. It converts higher voltage, alternating current to a low voltage, ...

The quest for energy efficiency has led manufacturers to investigate ways of dimming all kinds of lighting technologies, including those that usually can’t be dimmed. Consider, for example, ...