LED Lighting guides
Here in one neat package is our collection of key LED lighting articles, covering white LEDs, coloured LEDs, OLEDs and Lighting LEDs...
* White LEDs
* Coloured LEDs
* LED Lighting (1)
* LED Lighting (2)
* LEDs General
* LED Optics
* OLEDs
* Costing LEDs
* LED heatsinking
* 50 year history of the LED
Check out another LED-related feature article uploaded to the site: LEDs light up LCD TVsTo understand the driving force for white LED backlit flat-panel LCD TVs, it is important to have some idea as to why they should be used over other forms of lighting, such as cold cathode florescent lamps (CCFL).
Check out this 208,800 LED lighting scheme in Abu Dhabi, which comes courtesy of Enfis in Swansea and Cooper Lighting of Leamington Spa. 
This one caught my eye over the weekend - LED illuminated message boards, which automatically switch hand-drawn sketches into a light show. Think Etch-a-Sketch with a phychelic twist.While our tot-hood was filled with low-end luxuries like Etch A Sketch and Lite-Brite, our offspring are expanding their minds with things like the LED Illuminated Message Board. Much like a traditional dry erase board, those with the appropriate pens can simply draw up whatever they please on the white display, but flip a switch and the whole thing goes psychoactive.See LED Illuminated Message Board makes ordinary messages psychedelic
SWARM is a kinetic art work of semi-autonomous spherical robots ("Orbs"). Each robot has a shell 30 inches in diameter, with batteries, motors, audio system and color LED illumination inside. The SWARM is under the command of an on-board computer with wireless connectivity to other orbs and a central computer.
SWARM is built to explore the aesthetic possibilities in the emergent behavior of artificial systems. As a first step, Orbs are remote-controlled by human operators, but each Orb's sounds and color illumination is algorithmically generated in response to location and motion.See the video after the break.
Two Scottish companies claim to have made a breakthrough in the development of very thin LED backlights for large area displays.
Details of the 'breakthrough' seem to be secret until next week in Texas.
Happy new year everyone!
I wrote in my last blog about the continuing displacement of conventional lighting by LEDs in many applications, but I didn't expect LEDs to try compete in the tackiest of applications, Christmas lighting, quite so soon. Minnesota company Seasonal Impressions has developed a range of LED retrofit bulbs that are fully computer controlled allowing the creation of some amazing lighting displays. More can be seen here,
The development should at least save a fortune for the owner's of Vegas' casinos
See also Electronics Weekly's roundup of content related to LEDs, with a special focus on both white LEDs and coloured LEDs, and Lighting LEDs.
* White LEDs
* Coloured LEDs
* LED Lighting (1)
* LED Lighting (2)
* LEDs General
* LED optics
* OLEDs
* Costing LEDs
* 50 year history of the LED
Paul Ward
As Opto Product Manager at Farnell, Paul is overseeing the company's involvement in the rapidly evolving and high profile LED lighting market sector.
As well as ensuring that Farnell offers the latest technologies and products related to solid state lighting, Paul is also responsible for ensuring that the resources are in place to make it easier for design engineers to specify and design-in LED solutions for their applications.
Educated in Production Engineering and Design at Sheffield Hallam University, Paul has worked in various engineering, training and marketing roles for companies including C&K switches, ITT Cannon, Cherry and LED specialist Chicago Miniature Lighting.
Away from the world of LEDs, Paul is a Founder of the charity RTTW, Photographer and Harley Davidson rider; he has ridden and snapped across Europe, New Zealand and the USA on his chrome hog!
Gordon Routledge
Gordon Routledge is one of the original pioneers in LED illumination having worked with LEDs in illumination applications since 1996. Currently VP of Illumination at Dialight, Gordon founded Lumidrives in 2001, having previously been managing director at ACDC Lighting Systems. Gordon has a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from university of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
Ian Bryant
Ian Bryant is Business Development Manager LED Division at Carclo Technical Plastics. He has worked on and off at Carclo (Formerly Combined Optical Industrial) since leaving school. He has worked through the company from Toolmaking to starting the company on the road of LED optics business some 6-7 years ago, starting with a standard range and more in line with the business of custom optics. In between all this he has worked in engineering and as a works Director for a hydraulics company but kept getting pulled back to the optics industrial. We are able to offer the full solution from idea to parts so have a very good understanding on what is needed. You will see some posts from our design team also under my name.
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