At first glance, using a microcontroller for a simple fancy light project is overkill. However, the existing design can be modified later without additional hardware. Often a few extra code lines will ...

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 ...

Using the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC, a fantastic RGB LED illuminated world map has been created by Hack A Day user Joshua Krosenbrink for his office, that is capable of showing his co-workers ...

ir_sensor.py: Reads input from an IR sensor, uses GPIO event detection and prints messages when an object is detected or removed rgb_led.py: Contains functions for controlling an RGB LED, handling the ...

While we’ve seen many Raspberry Pi enclosures made out of LEGO in the past, this Portal-themed build with RGB lighting deserves a special nod. We spoke to the creator of this build, Instagram user ...

There are a variety of creative uses for the Raspberry Pi that can be incorporated into specialized projects that include visual elements, automation, and more. According to Eben Upton, CEO of ...

Makers, developers and Raspberry Pi enthusiasts may be interested to know that the awesome Raspberry Pi LED SHIM created by Pimoroni has now arrived at the Adafruit online store and is now available ...

A library to control commonly available 64x64, 32x32 or 16x32 RGB LED panels with the Raspberry Pi. Can support PWM up to 11Bit per channel, providing true 24bpp color with CIE1931 profile. Supports 3 ...

Quick–in a pinch, let’s have ourselves a giant RGB LED Matrix! As marvelous as it sounds, it’s pretty easy to forget that there’s a battle to be won against picking the right parts, debugging drivers, ...