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Smart Options for Upgrading Your Workbench Lighting

Ben Krasnow

By Ben Krasnow

Ben Krasnow

Ben Krasnow works at Google[x], creating advanced prototypes, and previously developed virtual reality hardware at Valve. Follow Ben’s personal projects on his YouTube channel, Applied Science: youtube.com/bkraz333

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If you’re thinking about upgrading your workshop lighting, here’s our short, no-nonsense advice to getting a brighter space.

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LED By Example

LED By Example

Charles Platt

By Charles Platt

Charles Platt

Charles Platt is a contributing editor to Make magazine, which has published more than 50 of his articles. Six of his books are available from Make: Books

Make: Electronics, an introductory guide, now available in its second edition.

Make: More Electronics, a sequel that greatly extends the scope of the first book.

Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, volumes 1, 2, and 3 (the third written in collaboration with Fredrik Jansson).

Make: Tools, which uses the same teaching techniques as Make: Electronics to explore and explain the use of workshop tools.

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Note: This is an excerpt from Charles Platt’s newest book, The Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, Volume 2, the second in his reference trilogy. Unlike the “Learning by Discovery” emphasis of Charles’ popular Make: Electronics and Make: More Electronics, the Encyclopedia series doesn’t have step-by-step instructions for experiments, but rather, is intended to pull together the […]

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