(Trust us, it’s a fruit.) With some research, he discovered the HT16K33 LED driver, which checked all the boxen. The first version worked, but needed what looks like a couple of bodge wires.

Personal Note: When LEDs appeared initially, one of the problems that we faced was that the LED drivers that came with the lamps would malfunction. I initially designed a small circuit to limit ...

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