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LED lamps are (not) forever

Two weeks ago I wrote about my experience with special price offers for LED bulbs at Bauhaus. What I didn’t write was that I then just went to the other side of the street – well almost – and bought a 2.2 W E14 LED bulb at Jula.

2.2 W E14 LED […]

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Optical illusions

On National Geographic there is right now a science show called Brain Games. Even though a lot of the contents is not new, there was one optical illusion which really fascinated me:

Which direction are the black and white balls moving?

Look at the full image, look at the red circle, look […]

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AVR ISP breadboard adapter

My very own AVR ISP adapter on a breadboard.

Breadboards are great! I mean the solderless breadboard type which you can get everywhere now for almost no money. I use them all the time to prototype electronics circuits and have been forcing my students to do the same.

Most of my current […]

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special offer at Bauhaus

Today I was at Bauhaus in Uppsala, just browsing, not looking for anything special. Close to the exit there was a table with LED light bulbs which were obviously taken out of the regular assortment and re-labelled with new prices.

Usually you would expect a bargain – and since I am somewhat sold to […]

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Do you need a byte?

You can get everything on eBay, but I have not found a breakout board to visualize a byte on LEDs.

My latest Instructable is on the design of a breakout board to view the state of up to eight bits in a breadboard circuit. I don’t fell I have the time to […]

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