History of the LED — the Movie 106
ptorrone writes "MAKE Magazine has a fantastic 'Connections'-style video called THE LED — The short documentary has the history of the LED to modern day applications. Starting with the work of Russian Oleg Vladimirovich Losev, which was largely ignored in the 1920s, to making your own 'Cat's Whisker' — a primitive LED made from a metal-semiconductor point-contact junction forming a Schottky barrier diode. The first practical visible-spectrum LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak Jr., while working at General Electric Company."
LED: The Movie (Score:5, Funny)
It was such an enlightening experience.
Illuminating film (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Best not to overdrive them though (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Illuminating film (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Baby Blues. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Best not to overdrive them though (Score:3, Funny)
It took me a while before I figured out how to spot proper components that kept the magic smoke inside.
Yeah I tried resistors for that but they often became Smoke Emitting Resistors too.
Re:Illuminating film (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Baby Blues. (Score:5, Funny)
I might try this sometime. Should I apply the soldering iron to the LED or the product designer?
Re:warning don't try at home! (Score:1, Funny)
Cool, Richard Dean Anderson is posting to slashdot!
Re:Illuminating film (Score:3, Funny)
Nonsense! Two atoms walk into a bar. The first says "I think I've lost an electron", and the second replies "Are you sure?", and the first one says "I'm positive"
The other took a closer look, but the wave function collapsed and the electron reappeared.
Re:Illuminating film (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks! I'll be here all week. Tip your servers and avoid the crab louie like the plague!