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Continue reading →: Induction Chargers, i.e., your electric toothbrush.
Ever seen how the charging station of an electric toothbrush has no copper contacts? How does it charge the brush? This is a good example of inductive charging. This way of charging up appliances is becoming more and more common. Many new types of i-whatevers and cellphones can be charged from…
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Continue reading →: L5030 LED Booster/Driver
This is really cool. You know those expensive, uber-duber, high efficiency, long life torches they always sell in Popular Mechanics or some gun mag? How do they do it? With a chip like this. The L5030 is a tiny SMT (surface mount technology) chip that drives LEDs using pulses. The idea is similar to…
