When [Rodrigo Feliciano] realized that the reason his seven-segment LED wall clock wasn’t working was because the original TG1508D5V5 controller was fried, he had a decision to make. He could either ...

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 ...

A DIY wall-mounted sound visualizer plots ambient audio as a smooth waveform on an RGB LED matrix, combining a Pico-class ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for inspiration for projects to use the new Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller, which is now available to purchase priced at just $4, may be interested in a new Pico ...

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 ...

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Visualizers used to be very much in vogue, something you’d gasp in at amazement when you’d fire up Winamp or Windows Media ...