From your very first blinking LED to dazzling multi-color sequences, Arduino makes it easy to bring light to life. With just a board, a few LEDs, and some code, you can experiment with patterns, ...

Recent DIY trends show makers increasingly turning to ESP32 microcontrollers and Arduino platforms for smart home projects, replacing costlier or overpowered setups like Raspberry Pi in many cases.

Multicore processing boosts performance and energy efficiency in many coding situations. Bare-metal algorithms further ...

Some events you attend, and some events you feel the moment you walk through the doors. The Rand Show 2026 was the latter, ...

Proper waste sorting is very important for keeping our neighbourhoods clean and saving resources for the future. When we mix ...

Hardshell LED masks are more durable than their silicone mask counterparts, but they’re a tad heavier. Ritchey finds that ...

Daniel Ansorregui has developed LightInk, an open-source solar-powered E-ink watch inspired by 90s solar digital watches. It ...

If you were to point to a single device responsible for much of Hackaday’s early success, it might be the Arduino Uno. The ...

Now this one is a bit bonkers, really. A full Dolby Atmos home cinema with, practically, a 100-inch screen for three grand? If you had asked me for an estimate on the overall cost of that lot a decade ...

At nearly 8 feet wide the Lightwall is larger than most TVs but with much less resolution. is a senior reporter who’s been ...

LED candles are neat, but they’re very suboptimal for wish-making: you can’t blow them out. Unless you take the circuit from ...

The TCL QM8L is the latest offering from the TV brand most closely associated with mini-LED backlighting technology. Yes, ...