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Light Switch + Fan Dimmer in One Board With ESP8266

“In this tutorial you are going to learn how to build your own light switch and fan dimmer in just one board with the microcontroller and WiFi module ESP8266. This is a great project for IoT. Cautions: This circuit handles …

Making and controlling crystals of light

“EPFL scientists have shown how light inside optical on-chip microresonators can be crystallized in a form of periodic pulse trains that can boost the performance of optical communication links or endow ultrafast LiDAR with sub-micron precision. Optical microresonators convert laser …

Nanoparticles in lithium-sulphur batteries detected with neutron experiment

“An HZB team has for the first time precisely analysed how nanoparticles of lithium sulphide and sulphur precipitate onto battery electrodes during the course of the charging cycle. The results can help increase the service life of lithium-sulphur batteries. Lithium-sulphur …

Nerf Dart Launcher for the FPV-Rover and FPV-Trike

“From the beginning ob building the FPV-Rover, I wanted to have a Nerf Dart Launcher on it. And finally, here it is. This is the fifth upgrade for the rover and it won’t be the last. Videos: Links …

New insulation technique paves the way for more powerful and smaller chips

“Researchers at KU Leuven and imec have successfully developed a new technique to insulate microchips. The technique uses metal-organic frameworks, a new type of materials consisting of structured nanopores. In the long term, this method can be used for the …

NIST Team Shows Atoms Can Receive Common Communications Signals

“Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of sensor that uses atoms to receive commonly used communications signals. This atom-based receiver has the potential to be smaller and work better in noisy …

NTU scientists develop optical ruler that can measure down to the nanoscale

“Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new way to measure distances at the nanoscale – one nanometre being one billionth of a metre – using light. Devices that use light to see objects, such as microscopes, have …

Objects can now change colors like a chameleon

“Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory team creates new reprogrammable ink that lets objects change colors using light. The color-changing capabilities of chameleons have long bewildered willing observers. The philosopher Aristotle himself was long mystified by these adaptive creatures. But …

Optical vacuum cleaner can manipulate nanoparticle

“Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with Russian and international colleagues developed the concept for constructing an “optical vacuum cleaner”. Due to its optical properties, it can trap nanoparticles from the environment. Currently, there are no effective devices for this …

Reconfigurable Electronics Show Promise for Wearable, Implantable Devices

“Medical implants of the future may feature reconfigurable electronic platforms that can morph in shape and size dynamically as bodies change or transform to relocate from one area to monitor another within our bodies. In Applied Physics Letters, from AIP …