Article 3X87H Making an LED you blow out like a candle, without any additional sensors

Making an LED you blow out like a candle, without any additional sensors

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Cory Doctorow
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LEDs are diodes (that's what the D stands for) and diodes are sensitive to voltage drops: when you blow on an LED, you make it ever so slightly cooler, and that causes an infinitesimal, but detectable voltage drop. (more")

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