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Wireless Soldering Iron

“Wireless soldering iron - that sounds weird. Sometimes I feel like soldering outdoors, but I can’t take my soldering station outside. I bought a USB soldering iron, which worked quite well, but needed a little modification, because what if I …

ZTF Finds Closest Known Asteroid to Fly By Earth

“On August 16, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a robotic survey camera located at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, spotted an asteroid that had, just hours earlier, traveled only 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. Designated …

12W Dimmer with Soft Start for 12V LEDs

“The circuit presented here is a LED dimmer with a soft-start function. The board can drive a LED up to 12W and the circuit can manage a load up to 1A continuous with 12Vsupply. The circuit is built using SG3525 …

A team of international physicists join forces in hunt for sterile neutrinos

“An international group of more than 260 scientists have produced one of the most stringent tests for the existence of sterile neutrinos to date. The scientists from two major international experimental groups, MINOS+ at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab …

Alexa Home Automation System Using NodeMCU & Relay Module

“You can easily control light, fan, and other home appliances with the voice commands using the NodeMCU and Relay module. In this IoT project, I have made the Alexa Smart Home Automation system using the NodeMCU ESP8266 & Relay Module. You …

Arduino 3D Axonometric Projection

“3D axonometric projection on 8-bit and 32-bit microcontroller and TFT. 3D PROJECTION 3D projection is any method of mapping three-dimensional points to a two-dimensional plane. As most current methods for displaying graphical data are based on planar two-dimensional media, the …

Assessing the value of battery energy storage in future power grids

“Storage value increases as variable renewable energy supplies an increasing share of electricity, but storage cost declines are needed to realize full potential. In the transition to a decarbonized electric power system, variable renewable energy (VRE) resources such as wind …

AVRaft - Makers Tool for Testing Actuators

“A small little console that allows you to quickly set, test, try many different actuators (e.g. servos, stepper, ultrasonic, DHT22, etc… ) AVRaft - a makers tool/toy I was fustrated to always needing to grab my ardunio, breadboard and jumper …

‘Black dwarf supernova’: ISU physicist calculates when the last supernova ever will happen

“The end of the universe as we know it will not come with a bang. Most stars will very, very slowly fizzle as their temperatures fade to zero. “It will be a bit of a sad, lonely, cold place,” said …

Break it down: A new way to address common computing problem

“A computational framework for solving linear inverse problems takes a parallel computing approach In this era of big data, there are some problems in scientific computing that are so large, so complex and contain so much information that attempting to …