Collaborate Disseminate
We’re not sure what is more amazing here: the glow of the blinkenlights themselves, the tedium involved in creating it, or the fact that [makeTVee] soldered 280 microscopic WS2812 LEDs …read more Continue reading Add Some Blinkenlights to Your Supercon Badge
Fibonacci numbers are seen in the natural structures of various plants, such as the florets in sunflower heads, areoles on cacti stems, and scales in pine cones. [HackerBox] has developed …read more Continue reading Math You Can Wear: Fibonacci Spiral LED Badge
[Maarten Pennings] shares a word clock project – but not the regular kind. For a start, this clock is a shining demonstration of hobbyist-available 3D printing technologies, with embedded light …read more Continue reading An Impeccably Documented Word Clock In Dutch
These days, addressable LEDs are all the rage. A little chip paired with each LED receives signals and modulates the light output as needed. [John Peterson] was working on a …read more Continue reading Throwback: Designing Addressable LEDs from Scratch
The first dance of a newly married couple at the wedding reception is both a sentimental and memorable event, so why not make it even more so with something a …read more Continue reading 1200 Addressable LEDs Make For the Perfect First Dance
Often, financial motivation results in people writing great educational material for hackers. Such is absolutely the case with this extensive documentation blog post on addressable LEDs by [DeRun]. This article …read more Continue reading Teaching You Everything You Might Have Missed About Addressable LEDs
Addressable LEDs are wonderful things, with products like Neopixels making it easy to create all kinds of vibrant, blinking glowables. However, for those without a lot of electronics experience, using …read more Continue reading Tutorial Teaches You To Use Neopixels With Micropython
By now most readers should be used to addressable LEDs, devices that when strung out in a connected chain can be individually lit or extinguished by a serial data stream. Should you peer at one under a microscope you’ll see …read more
Few things excite a Hackaday staff member more than a glowing LED, so it should be no surprise that combining them together into a matrix really gets us going. Make that matrix tiny, addressable, and chainable and you know it’ll be a hit at the virtual water cooler. We’ve seen …read more
When we last heard from [lixielabs] he was building Nixie tube replacements out of etched acrylic and LEDs. Well he’s moved forward a few decades to bring us the Pixie, a chainable, addressable backpack for tiny LED matrix displays.
Each Pixie module is designed to host two gorgeous …read more