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 announced the arrival of new LED hardware in the form of DotStar Micro LEDs reference : APA102–2020) and Smart SMD RGB LEDs which are available in a pack of 10. The new LED ...

Thanks to their versatility, commodity-level pricing and the eye-popping visual effects they create, programmable LED strips have become a staple ingredient for both Maker-style projects and more ...

I have spotted this interesting Raspberry Pi display project on the Adafruit community blog. A design project by Tony Dicola takes an RGB Matrix HAT for the Raspberry Pi, supplied by Adafruit, and ...

Hobbyists, electronic enthusiasts, and makers may be excited to learn that Adafruit has announced the arrival of the NeoTrellis RGB driver PCB for 4×4 keypad. This new release is an upgrade from the ...

While the gold standard for colorful blinky projects are individually controllable RGB LEDs, the usual offerings aren’t really that impressive. Yes, a few hundred Neopixels, WS2812, or other RGB LEDs ...