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 ...

Adafruit has this week added a new addition to their range of electronic components, announcing the availability of the new Particle/Spark NeoPixel Ring Kit, that is now available to purchase priced ...

If you buy WS2812s under the Adafruit NeoPixel brand, you’ll receive the advice that “An 8 MHz processor” is required to drive them. “Challenge Accepted!“, says [ShielaDixon], and proceeded to first ...

As an alternative to an Arduino Nano, Uno, or Mega, you can use a Raspberry Pi, a PSoC, a Teensy 3.2, an XLR8, or a ShieldBuddy to control your NeoPixel applications. As an alternative to an Arduino ...

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 4 of this ever-growing mega-mini-series. In Part 1, we discussed the first vacuum tube diodes, moved on to their solid-state (semiconductor) descendants, and then ...