The OSH Park Experience

For the LightSaga project we have designed some custom boards that will house the Photons, light sensor, some capacitors for stability and a logic level converter. Nothing too fancy but a good chance to let these prototypes be produced by OSH Park, well known for their purple PCBs. One of the really awesome features of …

Brightness, Analog > Digital

Brightness, Analog > Digital

One of the annoyances with my led clock has been that it is too bright during the evening. But, that can be easily solved by adding some kind of brightness control… This is the tale of that feature. So, brightness control. There’s an awesome digital light sensor that can give you resolutions up to 16 bits …