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> "all the ways you can release the blue genie from an LED, why it happens, and what you can do about it." ???
by ZenoArrow 11y ago
> "all the ways you can release the blue genie from an LED, why it happens, and what you can do about it."
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- moron4hire 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
- mmosta 11y ago"Magic blue smoke" is a euphemism for when you blow/burn electronic components (usually inadvertently, but not always). The proper design of a simple LED circuit touches on a few fundamentals of circuit design.
- toast0 11y agoIt seems the blue genie is an alternative notion of the magic smoke: At the electronics factory, they put magic smoke into the IC, if you let it out, you won't be able to put it back in yourself. (Often there's a puff of smoke when you destroy an IC, maybe when you put the power input onto the wrong lines, or 12v for a 5v chip, etc)