Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

Scottsdale, Ariz. — NKK Switches has expanded the KP series of illuminated pushbutton switches with devices that include silent or audible actuation with shorter strokes, making it well-suited for ...

You can use an LED as a photoelectricsensor. A previousDesign Idea shows that such a switchis highly power-efficient, consumingalmost no power (Reference 1).However, you cannot adjust that ...

Last year I visited Switch Lighting, a small Silicon Valley company that claimed to have built something revolutionary. Switch’s product: a light bulb that produced the same warm, comforting glow that ...

So I have a couple of floor lamps that have three-way switches and was designed for incandescent light bulbs. To clarify, when I say three-way switch, I mean it cycles between off, low, medium, and ...

Despite the Republican party’s best, yet misguided efforts, incandescent bulbs are on their way out. Energy-efficient lighting like CFLs and LEDs are fast becoming the norm, and it was only a matter ...

We've learned that another company is trying their hand at such a product and that it will be revealed at the end of this month. The company in question is called UGetLight and at the Build+Light 2014 ...

How a single LED driver can support buck, boost, and buck-boost topologies. Design details for each topology type. How such drivers work in automotive and machine-vision designs. The breadth of LED ...