Table of Contents

1. Read This Before You Start Any Projects
PART ONE: Illumination and Flasher Projects
2. Basic LED Circuits: How to Make an LED Flashlight
3. An Alternative Way to Power an LED: "Green" Pocket LED Flashlight
4. Building a Clock Generator: Basic Single-LED Flasher
5. Bringing a 555 Timer to Life: LED Bike Flasher
6. Exploring Multicolor LEDs: Color-Changing Light Box
7. Using Seven-Segment Displays: Mini Digital Display Scoreboard
PART TWO: Sequencer Projects
8. Introducing the 4017 Decade Counter: Experimental LED Sequencer Circuit
9. Driving Multiple LEDs from a Single IC Output: Color-Changing Disco Lights
10. LED Binary Ripple Counter
11. Flickering LED Candle
12. Introducing the PIC16F628-04/P Microcontroller
13. LED Light Sword
14. A Manually Operated Sequencer: Invisible Secret Code Display
PART THREE: POV Projects
15. Basic LED Matrix and POV Concepts: How to Build a Three-Digit Counter
16. A Multicolor POV LED Circuit: Backpack Illuminator
17. Using a Dot-Matrix Display to Show a Waveform: Digital Oscilloscope Screen
18. Light-Dependent LEDs: Experimental Low-Res Shadow Camera
19. Creating a POV Effect in Mid-Air: Groovy Light Stick
20. Showing Numbers on a Dot-Matrix Display: Dot-Matrix Counter
21. Creating Animations and Scrolling Text on a Dot-Matrix Display: Moving Message Destiny Predictor
Appendix: Useful Resources

About the Author

Nick Dossis holds a Higher National Certificate in Electronic/Electrical Engineering. He is the author of several articles published in Everyday Practical Electronics (EPE) magazine, a popular monthly publication for electronic hobbyists. Nick has been playing around with electronics for most of his life, originally encouraged by his grandfather who bought him his first crystal radio set when he was six. He continues to design electronic circuits and projects in his spare time.