With all the flashy tech that comes across my desk, it’s easy to overlook the thing that actually powers everything – the lowly power strip ... which has integrated LED displays and can ...

This means it’s possible to short circuit an LED strip without actually tripping the overcurrent protection on something like an ATX power supply, which may be fused at well over 10 amps.

But these were not your standard WS2812B strips with ... an ATtiny10 as the LED driver. With just a few lines of code and a 100 nF buffer capacitor across the ATtiny’s power pins, [Tim] was ...