Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

The NZXT Noctis 450 ROG sports integrated LED lighting. In the past, adding lighting to a PC case—cold cathodes, no less—required serious component research and potentially complex cabling. But with ...

Most engineers are quite familiar with typical low-power-indicator LEDs, whether they be surface-mount or the classical through-hole packages. All that's needed to use them is a voltage source and a ...

You can find LED lighting solutions in all sorts of form factors these days, from big panels to tiny, rugged dots with built-in batteries, to flexible fabric pads with LED strips on them. These pads ...

With new LED lights, one of the most difficult, demanding, and costly sections of a design is thermal management. Without sufficient thermal management, the results can be catastrophic, ranging from ...