In this video I'll be showing you how you can control the contrast and the back light brightness of a 1602 LCD display with just the Arduino. The contrast is typically adjusted with a variable ...

Forget dim solar-powered lights: Here's what actually happens when you upgrade your patio with inexpensive, waterproof, smart LEDs. Alan Bradley CNET Contributor Alan Bradley is an experienced ...

Gaming PCs One Redditor has 3D-printed a big yellow air duct to attach to their GPU, and the results are middling: It 'does nothing but it looks cool' Gaming Keyboards As an ergonomic keyboard skeptic ...

A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

Yeckel] recently put the finishing touches on an ambitious implementation of a simple D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) transceiver using some very accessible and affordable ...

NeuroBand is a specialized smart safety armband engineered to provide timely assistance to elderly and high-risk individuals during emergencies. Its primary goal is to mitigate the risks associated ...

Getting the most out of A/B and other controlled tests by Ron Kohavi and Stefan Thomke In 2012 a Microsoft employee working on Bing had an idea about changing the way the search engine displayed ad ...

Wendy’s launches a $100K Chief Tasting Officer contest running through the end of March as fast-food brands trade jabs on social media over their burgers. California chicken chain Starbird reports ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84. Nearly 3.4 million pounds of recalled Trader Joe's chicken fried rice products may contain glass.