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Showing posts with label LEDs. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 11, 2021

RIP Isamu Akasaki -- Shared Nobel Prize for LED -- Analog Guy


From the obituary in the Washington Post: 

In addition to the Nobel Prize, Dr. Akasaki’s honors included a 2009 Kyoto Prize — Japan’s highest honor — recognizing developments in advanced technology. He found that some technology, however, needed no advancing at all. He took great pleasure, for example, in long-playing classical music records.

On that point, he joked, “I am analog.”

Friday, March 12, 2021

The Secret Life of LEDs -- A new Tim Hunkins Video


Thanks to Tony G4WIF for alerting us to this really nice video from the fellow who made all those great "Secret Life of Machines" videos.   This video on LED's makes me want to improve the lighting in my work shop.  And I think I need some more high wattage resistors.   I'm really glad Tim Hunkins is making more videos.  His look at the Secret Life of  Radio was a real masterpiece. 
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