We love clock projects here at Hackaday, and we’ve seen many beautiful designs based on a wide variety of display technologies. There are various types of glass tubes like Nixies, Numitrons and ...
Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...
[NotLikeALeafOnTheWind] has created many LED-based display projects, and shares his method for making attractive LED panel frames and mounts. At first glance it may look as though slapping a rectangle ...
UC Santa Barbara researchers continue to push the boundaries of LED design a little further with a new method that could pave the way toward more efficient and versatile LED display and lighting ...
We now take LED lighting for granted, but acheiving a specific colour is actually quite complicated. Why is that? At some point, reasonably soon, full-colour mixing will become more the rule than the ...
If you’ve ever witnessed or been part of the team of AV installers assembling and mounting an LED tile display, you know it can be an arduous process. Not only does each panel need to align perfectly ...
LED bulbs are a far more cost-efficient, environmentally-friendly option than traditional incandescent bulbs. With a life expectancy of 20 years or more (25x longer than incandescent), the energy ...
A new highly efficient and low production cost light emitting diode (LED) that could "potentially revolutionise lighting technology," has been developed. Zhibin Yu, an assistant professor of ...
Making a blue LED was once thought impossible. Unlike red or green, producing blue light required a semiconductor with a much larger energy band gap. For decades, the right material didn’t exist—or at ...