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Lack of Damage After Secondary Impacts Surprises Researchers

“When a material is subjected to an extreme load in the form of a shock or blast wave, damage often forms internally through a process called spall fracture. Since these types of intense events are rarely isolated, research is needed …

LCD Alarm Clock with many faces

“An LCD1602 alarm clock that includes many of the other LCD1602 clocks found on maker sites. Looking around for something to build, I decided on a LCD 1602 clock. After perusing the Web and finding many different implementations, I decided …

LHCb discovers a new type of tetraquark at CERN

“The LHCb collaboration has observed an exotic particle made up of four charm quarks for the first time. The LHCb collaboration has observed a type of four-quark particle never seen before. The discovery, presented at a recent seminar at CERN …

Light Up Face Mask with Bluetooth

“Protect yourself and others from coronavirus in public places, AND look amazing with custom animations on your mask! Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, cool face masks have shown up all over the internet. I started sewing face …

Make a Lithophane Lamp

“Hello, Internet! A few days back I 3D printed my first lithophane which turned out great. It has been a while since I did a 3D printing project. So, I decided to make a lithophane lamp with pictures of my …

Microchip Delivers the Smallest Automotive maXTouch Controllers for Smart Surfaces and Multi-function Displays

“New touch controller family offers multi-finger thick glove and weather-proof operation in a turn-key solution for easy integration To help enhance and ease today’s driving experience, automotive manufacturers are implementing additional touch displays beyond the center infotainment display (CID …

Project  Mini PLC

Mini PLC

“The Mini PLC card consists of a card developed by the Jefferson Bueno Channel on YouTube and allows you to use learning in low cost programming in relation to PLC commercials. The aim is to create an open software and …

New polymer easily captures gold extracted from e-waste

“One thing holding back e-waste recycling is the actual recycling process itself. We need cheaper, safer, cleaner, or more effective methods of separating and recovering the valuable elements from electronics before we can make the whole endeavor more attractive and …

Photonics: From custom-built to ready-made

“An international collaboration team of University California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and EPFL has developed an integrated technology that may revolutionize photonic systems. Information technology continues to progress at a rapid pace. However, the growing demands …

Project  Plant’m

Plant’m

“As most do, I love having plants around the house. Unfortunately, they almost always end up dying within a couple of weeks. So when at the end of my first year as a student at MCT at Howest I was …