It is a pretty common first project to use an Arduino (or similar) to blink an LED. Which, of course, brings taunts of: you could have used a 555! You can, of course, also use any sort of oscillator, ...
An earlier Idea For Design (Hardware-Based LED Blinking Control Eliminates Software Overhead) described a very interesting way to offload the software overhead required for a microcontroller to drive ...
There are plenty of utilities out there to control keyboard LED indicators, but I'm rather interested in controlling the power LED on my headless 1U rackmount. While theoretically there are tons of ...