Cree Connected LED Lightbulb with Zigbee Teardown #IoT #IoTuesday
This is a great teardown video – one of my favorites yet from electronupdate – complete with die shots of several of the ICs and components used in this Zigbee-enabled light bulb:
Tear down of a Cree Connected bulb. This Zigbee compliant bulb has lots of interesting silicon. Video looks at overall construction and then de-caps the ICs on the remote controller PCB.
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