What takes eight hours to solder and uses more shrink tubing that you thought imaginable? An LED matrix installed in a real pumpkin. When I mentioned that we’d like the LED pumpkin in last Friday’s ...

Part 1 of this three-part series introduced the technical and engineering steps necessary to design an LED display system from individual LED lamps. Part 2 provided the remaining steps needed to ...

[Gal Pavlin] admits to enjoying the occasional dance music show. For those who have never been to one, LED one-upmanship at these shows is a real and terrible thing, so much so that an entire market ...

LEDs provide a convenient way to electronically display information. LEDs provide a convenient way to electronically display information. Although the seven-segment LED display, arranged in the form ...

The second-generation Volkswagen Amarok is nearing its debut on July 7, and the German carmaker wants to keep the news flow pumping with a new teaser. This time, we learn more about the truck’s LED ...

Audi has developed high-beam headlights that can detect other vehicles on the road and dim part of the light beam so that they don’t blind other drivers while at the same time continue to cast their ...

The rate of traffic crashes in the United States is about three times higher at night than in the daytime. Visibility is a large contributing factor to that statistic. But a Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

We’ve seen some great Halloween-related hacks for costumes, including the gaping hole one over at Make, but we at GeekTech are fond of wiring up our pumpkins as well (we even made a Pumpkin PC). Mike ...

Opel has prided itself on the success of the 2016 Astra after winning numerous awards and registering 350,000 sold ordered since it went on sale in 2015. But, one feature in particular, is making ...

Makers, developers and electronic enthusiasts may be interested in a new Arduino programmable Internet connectable LED matrix display launched via the Crowd Supply website this week, which is now ...

Texas Instruments (TI) has unveiled a fully integrated, high-brightness LED matrix manager IC for adaptive automotive headlight systems. The TPS92661-Q1 is a compact, scalable solution that enables ...

A matrix of eight switches form an eight-channel LED bypass switching IC that controls on/off/dimming and fault indications for an LED array. In operation, the switch matrix interfaces with an ...