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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adafruit has this week announced the arrival of its new Raspberry Pi RGB Matrix Bonnet which is supported by any Raspberry Pi with a 40-pin GPIO header, such as the Zero, Zero W/WH and Pi Model A+, B+ ...

The Banana Pi BPI-Pico-RP2040 is a tiny, low-power single-board computer that looks a lot like the Raspberry Pi Pico… and should be compatible with most Pico-powered projects, since it has the same ...

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, ...

The Raspberry Pi is a super fun gadget used by many creatives and DIY enthusiasts. There's a project for every room in the house, and there are several Raspberry Pi starter kits if you've never used ...