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.
4 thoughts on “Reverse engineering the Mac ‘breathing’ LED”
wamitchellsays:
johnjosephbachir: i thought they were going to reverse engineer it so they can more precisely shoot it with a shotgun johnjosephbachir: not mimick it in other projects johnjosephbachir: i guess my only beef is with its brightness
japroachsays:
hah
Anyone have a video of what this looks like?
and you would think it would be easier to just take it apart and scope the led directly. However I’ve never taken an apple apart.. and this is much more impressive.
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johnjosephbachir: i thought they were going to reverse engineer it so they can more precisely shoot it with a shotgun
johnjosephbachir: not mimick it in other projects
johnjosephbachir: i guess my only beef is with its brightness
hah
Anyone have a video of what this looks like?
and you would think it would be easier to just take it apart and scope the led directly. However I’ve never taken an apple apart.. and this is much more impressive.