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 ...

The black-and-white, spark-plug-style lighthouse that is criminology professor and CNN contributor Casey Jordan’s summer retreat stands in open water between North Haven and Vinalhaven islands. To get ...

Hailey Branson-Potts is a state reporter who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2011. She reports on a wide range of issues and people, with a special focus on rural communities. She grew up in the small ...

Lighthouses and Allen’s Coffee Flavored Brandy — a couple of Maine icons, with their rightful place in the pantheon alongside lobsters, pine cones, and whoopie pies. It’s a status backed up by stats: ...

For panoramic views as far as the eye can see, consider paying a visit to Gibbs Hill Lighthouse in Southampton Parish. Operating since 1846, the cast-iron lighthouse originally used a kerosene light ...

The Sanibel Lighthouse has been in service since 1884 to light the entrance into San Carlos Bay. Now, this iconic Sanibel Island landmark on the island's eastern tip, nearly 140 years old, is a little ...