Reverse engineering the Mac ‘breathing’ LED

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Reverse engineering the Mac ‘breathing’ LED

By Phillip Torrone

Phillip Torrone

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If you’ve ever seen that soothing “breathing” sleep indicator LED on Macs and want to use that same pattern for your electronics projects, here’s one way to reverse engineer it using a MIDIsense (featured in MAKE 07) – Link.

Related:
Breathing status LED indicator patent – Link.

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By Phillip Torrone

Phillip Torrone

current: @adafruit - previous: MAKE, popular science, hackaday, engadget, fallon, braincraft ... howtoons, 2600...

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