[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 ...

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 ...

For many years, if someone asked for a TV recommendation, there was an easy answer: choose an OLED TV. That’s been the status quo for about the past five years. But I’ve now seen what’s coming next ...

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 ...

I don’t like the term “OLED Killer.” It’s been beaten to death, and is now pretty much clickbait. Only once, recently, I applied the term to a TV, mentioning it only to stoke discussion. But I think I ...

It's relatively rare that new display technologies come along in the TV world. The cathode ray tube was dominant for ages, even if it switched to color early on. The next big leaps were LCD, then OLED ...