Why?

So, why did I create Yet Another Blog?

Lighting is one of those areas where art and engineering converge. Light is both useful and expressive at the same time and it lets me explore my creative as well as my technical side.

LEDs make playing with light easier than any other technology around today. They're "Green" in that a huge amount of light is produced for a small amount of electricity and that efficiency is constantly growing by leaps and bounds. Their tiny size makes it easier to fit them into smaller projects allowing us to work in scales from the microscopic to the truly huge.

So hopefully this will be a way to share my work and knowledge with the rest of the world.


We'll talk more about how to use LEDs than the technology itself. New types of LEDs and increasing efficiency is interesting, but actually putting them to work is a lot more fun! While LEDs by definition require electronic circuits to work, those circuits can be very simple and effective. I'll try to avoid complicated diagrams where possible and if I make things too difficult, hopefully I can rely on you, the reader, to smack me back down to reality :-)


If you're not technologically inclined, that's fine. I'd love to communicate with artists, hobbyists, experimenters in addition to those in industry. So make comments, ask questions, give me suggestions: I'm open to all.