[Alan] has been working on driving this WS2811 LED module with an AVR microcontroller. It may look like a standard six-pin RGB LED but it actually contains both an LED module and a microcontroller to ...

After years of the TV world largely focusing on upgrades on more or less the same core OLED and LCD screen technologies, we seem to be entering a new era of genuine TV hardware innovation. This year ...

As near as we can tell, the popular WS2812 individually addressable RGB LED was released to the world sometime around the last half of 2013. This wasn’t long ago, or maybe it was an eternity; the ...

Last week, Samsung announced the world's first Micro RGB TV and while it sounded fantastic on paper, you can never really get a good sense of what a fresh display looks like until you see it in person ...

Too Big for Your Wallet: TV makers keep developing new technologies to improve color accuracy and brightness, even on the largest screens. One popular approach focuses on extremely tiny backlight ...

Thanks to their versatility, commodity-level pricing and the eye-popping visual effects they create, programmable LED strips have become a staple ingredient for both Maker-style projects and more ...

Depending on where you live, you've likely seen a house with crazy flashing Christmas lights that change color and dance to music. Almost every neighborhood or town has "that one house" that goes all ...