You know how it is. You’ve got that new project running, and while it doesn’t consume much power, it also doesn’t give much indication of whether it’s functioning or just sitting there with a dead ...

This is a flashing led lights circuit powered from a 12V DC power supply that uses the well known 555 IC. Flashing lights have many and varied applications in life. They are used as warning lights on ...

Almost every micro-based project that I have designed in the past 25 years has had a flashing LED, originally as a “health” indicator, but the feature has expanded to use as a status indicator where ...

Time for another update for the Hackaday 68k, the 16-bit retrocomputer developed on Hackaday to show off both our love for vintage hardware and our new project hosting site. There’s still invites to ...

If you've ever used a Wi-Fi router to connect to the internet, you've probably wondered what all the blinking lights mean.

I’m not really sure if this is good or bad news for end consumers, but a couple of Japanese companies have developed a technology that makes it possible to transmit information from blinking LEDs ...

This simple and cheap circuit is not just for Christmas! There are just two resistors, a small-signal transistor such as a BC547, one ‘flashing’ LED and a string of ‘normal’ LEDs. The flashing LED ...

American motorcycle manufacture Harley-Davdson has just announced the release of new flashing LED police mirrors, offering customers the possibility to choose between any combination of red and blue ...

Checking a text on your mobile phone while crossing the road might seem harmless, but if you are unaware of the traffic flying by it could have tragic consequences. A QUT study found flashing LED ...