Colorful lights, when done right, can make your home look cool and futuristic. LED light strips have come a long way, which means you can ditch the year-round Christmas lights for something ...

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An Arduino is a popular open-source single-board microcontroller. Learn how to program one and let the possibilities take shape. By The Big Book Of Hacks Published Jan 10, 2013 3:00 AM EST Get the ...

We really like [Geert’s] take on accent lighting for his stairs. He built his own LED channels which mount under the bullnose of each step. The LED strips that he used are actually quite inexpensive.

F ig.3: WS2811 LED controllers pass instructions from the host MCU from pixel to pixel using a daisy-chain serial bus. Courtesy of World Semiconductor. To give you a sense of what's involved, here's a ...