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 ...

There’s something about clocks — sooner or later, every hacker wants to build one. And we end up seeing all kinds of display techniques being used to show time. For the simplest of builds, 7-segment ...

Normally when we give you a New Part Day piece, it concerns a component that you will have never seen before. The subject of this find by [Robert Fitzsimons] then is a slight departure from that norm, ...

Thanks to their versatility, commodity-level pricing and the eye-popping visual effects they create, programmable LED strips have become a staple ingredient for both Maker-style projects and more ...

Between all the telescopes, rocket engines, and body parts that people are printing these days, there are so many crazy additive manufacturing projects in the world that a 3D-printed TV hardly seems ...

Makers and electronic enthusiasts looking to add light and colour to the next project may be interested in the arrival of a new NeoPixel RGB Neon-like LED Flex Strip to the Adafruit online store.

Here's a nice one for those looking to incorporate LEDs with a touch or proximity switch into a project: the company Bare Conductive shows how to use an LED strip light with its Touch Board. The ...

Hi there, and welcome to Part 6 of this increasingly misnamed (or miscounted) trilogy of columns. Just to make sure we’re all tap-dancing to the same skirl of the bagpipes (and I know whereof I speak, ...

This Raspberry Pi project has global appeal — at least as far as things like weather and daylight goes. Maker and developer ...

I find it difficult to believe we’ve reached the end of our NeoPixel odyssey. Arriving at our destination has taken me by surprise. I don’t have a speech prepared, and I haven’t got a thing to wear. I ...