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Swarming robots avoid collisions, traffic jams

“New algorithm could help control driverless cars, automated warehouses For self-driving vehicles to become an everyday reality, they need to safely and flawlessly navigate one another without crashing or causing unnecessary traffic jams. To help make this possible, Northwestern University …

Sweat Sensor Detects Stress Levels; May Find Use in Space Exploration

“If someone asked you right now how stressed you are, what would you say? A little? A lot? You do not know? Those are all valid responses, but they are not especially useful to researchers and medical professionals because they …

EBooks  The MagPI 91

The MagPI 91

“Get involved with #MonthOfMaking in The MagPi magazine issue 91. Plus! Eben Upton talks to us about the new entry-level Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB RAM. Inside The MagPi magazine issue #91 #MonthOfMaking. Get involved with the community and commit …

The Tentacle Bot

“Octopus-inspired robot can grip, move, and manipulate a wide range of objects Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons are in its arms, meaning each arm literally has a mind of its own. Octopus arms can untie knots, open childproof bottles …

Toshiba’s New 100V N-channel Power MOSFET Helps Reduce Power Consumption of Automotive Equipment

“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has released “XK1R9F10QB,” a 100V N-channel power MOSFET suitable for automotive 48V equipment applications such as load switches, switching power supplies and driving of motors. Shipments start today. The new product is the first …

UPDI programmer compatible with Arduino IDE

“This board is a updi programmer that utilizes Arduino IDE to program AVR microcontroller.”

Using light to put a twist on electrons

“Method with polarized light can create and measure nonsymmetrical states in a layered material. Some molecules, including most of the ones in living organisms, have shapes that can exist in two different mirror-image versions. The right- and left-handed versions can …

Wooden LED Gaming Display Powered by Raspberry Pi Zero

“This project realizes a 20x10 pixel WS2812 based LED display with a size of 78x35 cm which can be easily installed in the living room to play retro games. The first version of this matrix was built in 2016 and …

Z20X Open-Source Computing System

“Z20X is a simple expandable DIY computing system, built around the eZ80 microprocessor. I chose eZ80 due to its native simplicity and full backward code compatibility with the great and very popular Z80 and Z180. The design goal of Z20X …

10,000 times faster calculations of many-body quantum dynamics possible

“Physicists from Kiel University have developed an extremely fast simulation technique to predict the time evolution of interacting electrons How an electron behaves in an atom, or how it moves in a solid, can be predicted precisely with the equations …