Colorful lights, when done right, can make your home look cool and futuristic. LED light strips have come a long way, which means you can ditch the year-round Christmas lights for something ...

With the help of the Power Mosfet, we can use the low voltage output from the Arduino ports to control high voltage/current loads -the popular “12V LED strips”- for instance. Remember to power the ...

It is also a relatively affordable undertaking, with the necessary items being easy-to-find and cheap. Other than the Arduino, the biggest expense will be with the LED lighting and will obviously vary ...

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If you're looking for a way to spice up your boring staircase, DIYer Geert shows off a simple way to safely light up your stairwell with programmable, color changing LED strips mounted directly to ...

The Arduino-powered display is built from a strip of 35 RGB LEDs. Now, that’s four pins per LED but one of is ground, leaving just 105 pins that need to be addressable. A couple of things make ...

I'm an Arduino newb, so go easy on me. I have an Arduino Uno with a Grove Base Shield and a Grove LED Strip Driver. I have Superlight strip LEDs. I'm using some of the example code and it seems to ...

The Creative Commons-licensed comic is serious business for budding Arduino tinkerers, with step-by-step instructions for a basic LED light project that will get you up and running with the ...