Chapter 5LED Chaser
Chaser lights—add instant cool to anything.
Time to truly “own the light.” In this chapter, we’re going to build chaser lights. You know what they are: a series of lights that illuminate one after the other, either in one direction or back and forth.
Both Battlestar Galactica and Knight Rider were produced by a man named Glen A. Larson, who really liked the chasing lights effect. For this reason, sometimes you’ll see the effect called a “Larson Scanner,” in his honor.
The eerie effect of a scanning light was first made famous in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) when the giant extraterrestrial robot Gort came to life ...
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