It is a pretty common first project to use an Arduino (or similar) to blink an LED. Which, of course, brings taunts of: you could have used a 555! You can, of course, also use any sort of oscillator, ...

A router blinking in the corner of a living room has a way of drawing attention even when everything is working perfectly. For many households, those flashing lights create unnecessary concern, ...

Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components to a 555. But you needn’t go so fancy! [The Design Graveyard] explains how ...

Flashing, spinning, and oddly blinking LED indicators have become the modern equivalent of red warning lights on a car dashboard. Rather than giving every potential problem and function on a ...