At first glance, using a microcontroller for a simple fancy light project is overkill. However, the existing design can be modified later without additional hardware. Often a few extra code lines will ...

Most of Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers ship without a case. But the company offers official cases for folks who’d rather enclose the computer in one. And there are dozens of third-party ...

The Pi Zero is a great piece of hardware, even if you’re not designing another USB hub for it. [Marcel] wanted to control a few RGB LED strips from his phone, and while there are a lot of fancy ways ...

Rasberry Pi enthusiasts or those looking to engage younger members of their family may be interested in a new Raspberry Pi add-on created by electrical engineer Ryan Walmsley based in the United ...

Quick–in a pinch, let’s have ourselves a giant RGB LED Matrix! As marvelous as it sounds, it’s pretty easy to forget that there’s a battle to be won against picking the right parts, debugging drivers, ...

Using the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC, a fantastic RGB LED illuminated world map has been created by Hack A Day user Joshua Krosenbrink for his office, that is capable of showing his co-workers ...