LET'S MAKE! (a deal)

During April 2014, all members posting projects in Elektor.LABS will receive a "Fun with LEDs" book for free.

Simply log-in first, and then create a project or enter a proposal, and the Elektor.LABS team will contact you at the end of the month. Easy ;)
The book will be delivered to your mailbox completely for free!

About "Fun with LEDs"

This book presents more than twenty exciting projects covering LEDs, aimed at young & old. Use this book to replicate various projects and then put them into practice!

LEDs are found everywhere these days. These colorful lights seem to offer so many you may wonder where to begin using them. This booklet presents more than twenty exciting projects covering LEDs, aimed at young & old. From an Air Writer, a Party Light, Running Lights, a LED Fader right up to a Christmas Tree.

Use this book to replicate various projects and then put them into practice. To give you a head start each project is supported by a brief explanation, schematics and photos. In addition, the free support page on the Elektor website has a few inspiring video links available that elaborate on the projects.

A couple of projects employ the popular Arduino microcontroller board that’s graced by a galaxy of open source applications.

Table of contents

• A few basic concepts
• A small LED control panel
• Mood light
• RGB LEDs
• RGB color fader
• Power fader
• Party Pin
• Christmas tree with ‘slow fade’ LEDs
• Running lights
• Microprocessor applications
• Air writer
• Color writer
• PowerPOV
• Programming effects
• Double dice
• Dice without Arduino
• Tail of the comet
• More comet tails
• Revolving light
• LED the music play
• Sound-to-light
• Tic-tac-toe
• Smileys
• The big money...
• Four-leaf clover