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Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cheaper components and manufacture to use a dedicated microcontroller to run PWM to dim the LEDs than something like a 555 and transistors to change its logic/capacitor path to vary brightness.

They even may use the same micro for charging lipo batteries, not sure since there are dirt cheap chips for that too.

The fact that people have bothered to modify such basic firmware is pretty funny though.