Once you’ve mastered the near-magical ability of turning your ideas into a piece of hardware you can hold in your hand, it’s only natural that you’ll want to spread the joy. The holidays are a perfect ...

For the past three years, Italian smart lighting company Ledworks and its Twinkly brand have been selling smart, “paintable” LED string lights that have been a hit with Christmas tree crowd. Now ...

A multichannel RGB LED driver, the MLX81117 from Melexis leverages the MeLiBu communication interface for animated automotive lighting. The device, which packs an integrated MCU and 16 LED drivers, ...

The project illustrates an animated snowflake pattern in Christmas lighting decorations by using a matrix of 61 white LEDs. The PIC18F1330 microcontroller was used to build the whole project as it ...

I hate LED Christmas lights. They’re so cold compared with the charm of incandescent bulbs. But oh-my-twinkling-goodness, check out these app-controlled Wi-Fi Christmas tree lights–I need to have them ...

Back to the Future fans, rejoice! Now you can build your very own flux capacitor. Even though you can't time travel, you can still create a time-travel device with the Flux Capacitor with Animated LED ...

With only a week left until Valentine’s day, [Henry] needed to think on his feet. He wanted to build something for his girlfriend but with limited time, he needed to work with what he had available.