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Lightweight green supercapacitors could charge devices in a jiffy

“In a new study, researchers at Texas A&M University have described their novel plant-based energy storage device that could charge even electric cars within a few minutes in the near future. Furthermore, they said their devices are flexible, lightweight …

Locust swarm could improve collision avoidance

“Plagues of locusts, containing millions of insects, fly across the sky to attack crops, but the individual insects do not collide with each other within these massive swarms. Now a team of engineers is creating a low-power collision detector that …

Mask Moisture Meter

“A simple device that measures the moisture of face masks The moisture meter uses a coin cell and a 555 timer to measure the resistance of your mask. It blinks and beeps when the mask is wet. The project on …

Mind Controlled Robot Using Arduino and Mindflex

“How we created a Mind Controlled Robot using Arduino which was later converted to a wheel chair. It is very clear that EEG sensors and headsets are becoming more commercialized and thus accessible to users for building custom brain-machine interfaces …

MMR: Magnetic Motion Robot

“Magnetic Motion Robot (MMR) is a DIY STEAM education robot thinked to build children’s interest in science and cultivate their essential skills of coding using mBlock MMR is an original robot can only move in a metalic surface using …

MutantC V3 - Modular and Powerful HandHeld PC

“A Raspberry-pi handheld platform with a physical keyboard, Display and Expansion header for custom boards (Like Arduino Shield). mutantC_V3 is successor of mutantC_V1 and V2. Check out mutantC_V1 and mutantC_V2. https://mutantc.gitlab.io/ https://gitlab.com/mutantC https://www …

Nanoearthquakes control spin centers in SiC

“Researchers from the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin, the Helmholtz-Zentrum in Dresden and the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg have demonstrated the use of elastic vibrations to manipulate the spin states of optically active color centers in SiC at room temperature. They …

Natural Radiation Can Interfere with Quantum Computers

“A multi-disciplinary research team has shown that radiation from natural sources in the environment can limit the performance of superconducting quantum bits, known as qubits. The discovery, reported today in the journal Nature, has implications for the construction and operation …

newelectronics 8 Setembro 2020

“New Electronics is a fortnightly magazine focusing on technological innovation, news and the latest developments in the electronics sector. Downloadable as a digital page turner or pdf file, or offered as a hard copy, the New Electronics magazine is available …

Next-gen smartphones to keep their cool

“The powerful electronics packed inside the latest smartphones can be a significant challenge to keep cool. KAUST researchers have developed a fast and efficient way to make a carbon material that could be ideally suited to dissipating heat in electronic …