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I built a cheap music-controlled RGB LED strip with ESP32 and it's better than any store-bought one

Store-bought RGB LED strips get boring quickly. You install them, download yet another app, and adjust effects to watch the flash with the music, without proper sync ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Raspberry Pi projects to try this weekend (April 3 - 5)

Your Pi is way more capable then you think it is.
Liliputing

Bee Write Back is a DIY distraction-free writing machine with OLED display and mechanical keyboard

The Bee Write Back is a writerDeck that combines a 5.5 inch AMOLED display with a small mechanical keyboard, a battery, and a ...
Hackaday

Bending Faux-Neon LEDs Make For Animations Glass Tubes Can’t Match

Odds are, if you like neon lights, you’re not thrilled with the LED faux-“neon” strips that are supposed to replace them.
PC World

I turned a Raspberry Pi 5 into a real SSD-powered PC for less than $200

PCWorld demonstrates building a high-performance Raspberry Pi 5 computer with NVMe SSD storage for under $200, requiring the 8GB Pi 5, M.2 HAT, and compatible power ...
CNET

An Electrician's Warning: Never Plug These Devices into Extension Cords

Corin Cesaric-Epple is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before joining CNET, she covered crime at People Magazine and ...