You’ve probably seen little LED lights of various kinds that cycle through red, green and blue, and then numerous psychedelic combinations of those colours. They’re popping up all over the place – in those twinkly mobile phone antennas, in novelty key-ring flashlights, as decorations for the burgeoning market sector of Random Things That Run From USB Power, and so on.In the olden days, the only way to create this sort of effect was with three separate lamps and a control box of some kind. One can, of course, still do this with separate LEDs.
Then along came low brightness multi-lead LEDs that combined two or three different coloured dies in one normal 5mm package, but still needed outboard driver hardware.
Then there were high brightness versions, just one of which could deliver penlight brightness.
And now we’ve got simple two-lead LEDs with three dies and control hardware, packed into a minuscule chip inside the standard-sized LED itself.
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Pretty nice, simple little mod. I have to say it’s the simple projects that are the best. And this one looks brain dead simple. So click and read on about how to do this.
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