If you've ever wanted a customizable smart display without the high cost or vendor lock-in, this DIY project might inspire you. Adam Conway, Lead Technical Editor and Developer for XDA, recently ...

LED-based signage and matrix displays are bringing new dimensions of versatility and eye-pleasing visual effects to a growing number of outdoor and indoor applications. Recent advances in LED ...

This repository contains code for both ESP32 and Raspberry Pi controllers for the Waveshare HUB75 LED Matrix Display. This code was written for an XDA-Developers article and is not intended for ...

In the world of smart homes, there are plenty of fantastic devices out there that can integrate well with Home Assistant and your other tools, and while dedicated sensors are great for their ...

LEDs offer a convenient way to electronically display information. Although the seven-segment LED display, arranged in the form of the digit 8, is common, it does not allow the display of some ...

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 ...

[Stan] built this LED matrix using a 16×16 grid of RGB LEDs. He built the hardware and wrote some subroutines to randomize the colors. He’s not using PWM because frame buffering is not feasible for ...

Like so many of us, [aforsberg] found themselves fascinated with the WOPR computer from WarGames — something about all those blinking LEDs must speak to nerds on some subconscious level. But rather ...