Everyone loves LED matrices, and even if you can’t find what you like commercially, it’s pretty easy to make just what you want. Need it big? No problem; just order a big PCB and some WS2812s. Need ...

Join us on Wednesday, June 9 at noon Pacific for the LED Matrix Hack Chat with Garrett Mace! It’s pretty amazing how quickly light-emitting diodes went from physics lab curiosity to a mainstream ...

The quest for energy efficiency has led manufacturers to investigate ways of dimming all kinds of lighting technologies, including those that usually can’t be dimmed. Consider, for example, ...

Once upon a time, buying a lightbulb meant choosing an incandescent one of between 25 and 100 watts, depending on how bright you wanted the light to be and the fixture you were putting it in. You ...

Trickle-down tech is just about how everything works these days. First the high-end rides get it, and over time it migrates to even the cheaper cars. Remember ABS? It started in the exotics, and now ...