Even if surface-mount skills aren’t in your repertoire, chances are pretty good that most of us are at least familiar with SMD stencils. These paper-thin laser-cut steel sheets are a handy way to ...

What takes eight hours to solder and uses more shrink tubing that you thought imaginable? An LED matrix installed in a real pumpkin. When I mentioned that we’d like the LED pumpkin in last Friday’s ...

Part 1 of this three-part series introduced the technical and engineering steps necessary to design an LED display system from individual LED lamps. Part 2 provided the remaining steps needed to ...

We’ve seen some great Halloween-related hacks for costumes, including the gaping hole one over at Make, but we at GeekTech are fond of wiring up our pumpkins as well (we even made a Pumpkin PC). Mike ...

Makers, developers and electronic enthusiasts may be interested in a new Arduino programmable Internet connectable LED matrix display launched via the Crowd Supply website this week, which is now ...

LEDs provide a convenient way to electronically display information. LEDs provide a convenient way to electronically display information. Although the seven-segment LED display, arranged in the form ...

A matrix of eight switches form an eight-channel LED bypass switching IC that controls on/off/dimming and fault indications for an LED array. In operation, the switch matrix interfaces with an ...

100 years ago, road traffic safety changed forever when automotive components company Bosch introduced the first electric headlights. Today, GM and Opel are at the forefront of the ever increasing ...

Anyone who is wanted to create their very own LED matrix watch may be interested in a new project which is being entered into the The 2017 Hackaday Prize competition and has been created by user Mile.