Although I'm not interested at all in brightness control and the different technologies you described, I really enjoyed reading your post. Your way of combining talking about technical issues with your personal life and challenges (your company job, having a side project along your day job, the winter cold near your house, etc.) made it possible for me to enjoy reading a post about something completely unrelated to me (DDC, etc.) Nice job.
You're welcome :) Ans since you deliberately chose this style, I'd be interested in learning from you (maybe in a new post) how you go about the process of writing.