Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have come a long way since their introduction as a practical electronic component in 1962. When LEDs first became commercially available, they were primarily used as ...

DIYer and woodworker April Wilkerson shows how to make a backlit LED sign for custom lighting and decor.

Call us easily amused, but we think it’s pretty amazing what can be done with a microcontroller, some RGB LEDs, and a little bit of plastic. Case in point is [andrei.erdei]’s beautiful and quite ...

Link’n Lights, a modular lighting innovator, observed that for decades, string lighting has been a familiar part of homes, ...

The quest for energy efficiency has led manufacturers to investigate ways of dimming all kinds of lighting technologies, including those that usually can’t be dimmed. Consider, for example, ...