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 ...

One of the first projects that most people do on an Arduino is to light up or flash an LED. It seems ultra-simple because it ...

Addressable LEDs are wonderful things, with products like Neopixels making it easy to create all kinds of vibrant, blinking glowables. However, for those without a lot of electronics experience, using ...

Create with light in this workshop on addressable LEDs. This three-hour course is an introduction to the WS2812 addressable LED. We will build a programmable badge that is wearable and rechargeable.

This is an easy tutorial showing how you can control the brightness of an LED or adjust the speed of a DC fan using Arduino Board, a small BC547 transistor and a potentiometer. In my example the whole ...

Arduino Micro has some extra leds that it is tricky to programme. Like almost all Arduinos, has a built-in led – the green one on the left in the photo. And it has a pair of yellow leds – called TX ...

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 ...

[Credit: Djandco on Instructables] The Look of Disapproval (made using the unicode character for the letter “tha” in the Indian language of Kannada and an underscore) is possibly my favorite ...

Serial Kickstarter campaign creators SwitchDoc Labs have now launched their fourth campaign via the crowdfunding website to raise the required funds they need to take their new Raspberry Pi and ...

LEDs are getting smaller and smaller, and the newest generations of indexable RGB LEDs are even fiddlier to use than their already diminutive predecessors. [Alex Lorman] has written some notes about ...