Can I use a dimmer switch with an LED bulb?

By mvuilleu, in Reviews, Electronics and Measures, august 15,2025.

With the disappearance of incandescent and halogen bulbs due to their poor energy efficiency, we're being encouraged to replace the bulbs in our lamps with equivalent LED bulbs. But if you're used to dimming your lights with a dimmer switch, you've probably noticed that your existing dimmer often doesn't work well with these new bulbs. Why is this, and how can we fix it?

Using our NuGet package with .Net

By seb august 08,2025.

This week, we're taking advantage of the release of a fix on our C# library (more specifically, the library's Nuget package) to take a look at the use of the NuGet package with .Net Core.

New: The Yocto-PowerRelayV2-C and the Yocto-PT100-C

By martinm, in New stuff, august 01,2025.

This week, Yoctopuce adds two new modules with USB-C connectivity to its catalog: the Yocto-PowerRelay-V2-C and the Yocto-PT100-C. Let's take a quick look...

Measuring the spectrum of a light source

By mvuilleu, in Measures, july 25,2025.

When we release a new product, it always takes some time for users who need it to discover it, via the Internet. So, a month after the release of the Yocto-Spectral and Yocto-Spectral-C, we are starting to receive the first, very positive, feedback. But to our surprise, at this time, the product's most frequent use case was not the one we had anticipated...

Typed Python library performance

By seb july 21,2025.

A few months ago, we launched a second version of our programming library: the Typed Python library. In a previous post, we explained the new features. This week, we'll be analyzing the difference in performance between the two versions.