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 ...

IntroductionThe hoboNicola adapter used to require soldering, but since I found a case for a microcontroller board with a USB ...

When live-action role playing, or LARPing, one must keep fully in tune with the intended era. That means no digital watches, and certainly no pulling out your fantastic rectangle from the future to ...

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 ...

Adafruit has created and launched a new FeatherWing board in the form of the Adafruit NeoPXL8 FeatherWing for Feather M4 which is capable of controlling 8 x DMA NeoPixels strips. Priced at just $6.95 ...

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 ...