LEDs have a special place in every maker's heart, and it's because we all love the ability to create light at moment's notice. Almost every project I have made over the last two decades has included ...

The Pi Zero is a great piece of hardware, even if you’re not designing another USB hub for it. [Marcel] wanted to control a few RGB LED strips from his phone, and while there are a lot of fancy ways ...

Today, we’re going to explore the uses of addressable LEDs. Addressable LED is an easy way to add complex lighting effects to any project. Each addressable LED has an integrated driver that allows you ...

While the gold standard for colorful blinky projects are individually controllable RGB LEDs, the usual offerings aren’t really that impressive. Yes, a few hundred Neopixels, WS2812, or other RGB LEDs ...

If you fancy creating custom photographs with light painting effects, Adafruit has created an interesting module that can be used with the awesome Raspberry Pi $35 mini PC, which is definitely worth ...

The Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller has a special "HSTX" port that can be used to output DVI signals to a monitor. Adafruit uses this function to connect an HDMI socket to the "Fruit Jam" board, ...