With the cost of high-brightness LEDs coming down, Andrew Morris decided he wanted a dimmable LED desk lamp. Yet he found the ones on the market were very expensive, and few of them were dimmable. So he decided to use his engineering skills to build his own.

He installed his circuit into a fluorescent desk lamp he had picked up years ago at a flea market. He also discovered the LED driver circuit was dirt cheap and simple to assemble.

Andrew Morris designed a dimmable LED driver circuit that is simple and energy efficient. He then installed
the circuit into a portable fluorescent lamp.

The dimmable LED driver circuit inside the desk lamp.

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