The Philips Hue app has grown in complexity over the past several years, with more and more new features and settings being ...

In the world of gardening, regulating critical assets such as light can yield vast benefits for your efforts. Utilizing these elements to autoregulate light in your garden is a prime benefit linked ...

Not satisfied with the handheld remote control for his outdoor patio lights, [timabram] decided to build an automatic timer using an ESP8266. He’s using a set of string lights from Costco, but as you ...

It is feasible that a hardware store employee might lead you to another cheap and handy light timer, a photosensitive attachment for outdoor lights. This would be good for a porch light. Again, all ...

A Texas-based software architect has brought the dream of a “smart home” one step closer with his automated sunrise / sunset timer for holiday light displays. “I have always used simple mechanical ...

You probably have enough on your holiday to-do list that manually controlling your outdoor Christmas decorations doesn’t need to be on there. All outdoor automatic timers should be waterproof and ...

When [Todd Harrison’s] Christmas lights stayed on well past the pre-defined shut off time, he knew there was something wrong with the timer. He took the device into his workshop and spent some time ...

Today we are going to create a strobe light for the tips of the wings of an rc airplane using a 555 timer (NE 555 or lm 555 ...