chips capable of implementing boost or sepIc converters are tailored to the headlamp application, integrating features that enable high brightness LeDs to be more readily applied in place of ...

This article is a design idea of a LED driver for halogen light bulb retrofit using LinkSwitch-TN. The design highlights include constant current (cc) output, universal input voltage range, meets ...

An LED driver IC for automotive applications must meet many requirements. It must be flexible, implementing multiple functions like high beam, low beam, fog lights, daytime running lights (DRLs), ...

Along with being brighter, LED bulbs tend to use less power and have a much longer average lifespan compared to conventional halogen bulbs. Now that LED lighting technology has gotten significantly ...

Lumissil Microsystems has introduce a speciallist RISC-V microcontroller for touch-controlled LED-based user interfaces, with optional sound feedback. There are two versions: IS31CS9310 for industrial ...

You have a lot of options available when it comes to your car lights. Understanding the different lights that are available, and how they improve visibility or design, is important as you choose the ...

Tagging wildlife is never straightforward in the best of times, but it becomes a great deal more complicated when you’re trying to track flying insects. Instead of trying to use a sensor package, ...

Automotive incandescent bulbs have largely given way to more efficient, reliable, stylish, and even safer light emitting diodes (LEDs). LEDs turn on in a fraction of the time and are especially useful ...

Police are seeking the public's help identifying a driver who fled the scene of a crash that injured multiple people. The ...

When you’re a tradie, chances are there will be jobs that require you to work late or through the night. This means, you might have to mount work lights at the back of your work ute. While other road ...

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 ...