Almost every micro-based project that I have designed in the past 25 years has had a flashing LED, originally as a “health” indicator, but the feature has expanded to use as a status indicator where ...

Almost every micro-based project that I have designed in the past 25 years has had a flashing LED, originally as a “health” indicator, but the feature has expanded to use as a status indicator where ...

The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the blinking LED lights on a modem are more forthcoming, two researchers revealed this week in a proposed submission to a security journal. Joe Loughry, an ...

Time for another update for the Hackaday 68k, the 16-bit retrocomputer developed on Hackaday to show off both our love for vintage hardware and our new project hosting site. There’s still invites to ...

This simple and cheap circuit is not just for Christmas! There are just two resistors, a small-signal transistor such as a BC547, one ‘flashing’ LED and a string of ‘normal’ LEDs. The flashing LED ...

Ever look for your trusty pet -- in the dark? Its no fun. That's why the good folks at Gadget4All.com have come up with the Flashing LED Collar, a collar that will help you find your furry friend even ...

You know how it is. You’ve got that new project running, and while it doesn’t consume much power, it also doesn’t give much indication of whether it’s functioning or just sitting there with a dead ...

Lower limb exoskeletons show great promise in helping those who have lost the use of their legs towalk again. However, if a person has been rendered quadriplegic, any hand controls insuch a device are ...

This is the Visijax wearable, or, to put it another way: a coat. But it’s got a trick quite literally up it’s sleeve, in the form of embedded LEDs that flash when the rider raises his arm to signal a ...