Brilliant LED projects: 20 electronic designs for artists, hobbyists, and experimenters

Part one: Illumination and flasher projects. Basic LED circuits : how to make an LED flashlight

An alternative way to power an LED : "green" pocket LED flashlight

Building a clock generator : basic single-LED flasher

Bringing a 555 timer to life : LED bike flasher

Exploring multicolor LEDs : color-changing light box

Using seven-segment displays : mini digital display scoreboard

Part two: Sequencer projects. Introducing the 4017 decade counter : experimental LED sequencer circuit

Driving multiple LEDs from a single IC output : color-changing disco lights

LED binary ripple counter

Flickering LED candle

Introducing the PIC16F628-04/P microcontroller LED scanner

LED light sword

A manually operated sequencer : invisible secret code display

Part three: POV projects. Basic LED matrix and POV concepts : how to build a three-digit counter

A multicolor POV LED circuit : backpack illuminator

Using a dot-matrix display to show a waveform : digital oscilloscope screen

Light-dependent LEDs : experimental low-res shadow camera

Creating a POV effect in mid-air : groovy light stick

Showing numbers on a dot-matrix display : dot-matrix counter

Creating animations and scrolling text on a dot-matrix display : moving message destiny predictor.