Using a 20-MHz crystal on pins 2 and 3 of the PIC allows for higher baud rates of up to 115,200 bit/s in its UART interface as opposed to the maximum 9,600 bit/s achievable by using the internal 8 ...

RGB LEDs are awesome – especially the new, fancy ones with the WS2812 RGB LED driver. These LEDs can be individually controlled to display red, green, and blue, but interfacing them with a mi… ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.&#8212Maxim touts its MAX16806 EEPROM-programmable driver, for high-brightness LEDs in automotive interior dome, map lighting, and courtesy light applications, as the first that does ...

The moving-dot display has some benefits over the bar-graph display: It better indicates the location of a detected object in sonar and radar applications; it needs only one LED’s current-limiting ...