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Weather Based Music Generator (ESP8266 Based Midi Generator)

“Hi, today I’ll explain how to make your own little Weather based Music generator. It’s based on an ESP8266, which is kind of like an Arduino, and it responds to temperature, rain and light intensity. Don’t expect …

Work Logger - Log Your Daily Work with a Turn of a Knob

“The Work Logger helps you log your daily work without any effort - no more spreadsheets needed. Story The Work Logger is a little everyday helper to log my working time. It tracks WHEN I am doing WHAT. And it does …

12V USB Charging Station

“This project is an attempt to build a practical USB charging station that you can connect to your solar setup or car battery to allow the simultaneous charging of several USB devices, in my case for camping trips. The unit …

200 times faster than ever before: the speediest quantum operation yet

“A group of physicists at UNSW Sydney have built a super-fast version of the central building block of a quantum computer. The research is the milestone result of a vision first outlined by scientists 20 years ago. A group of …

50 Years Ago: Apollo 11 Returns to Houston

“Apollo 11 splashed down 950 miles southwest of Hawaii on July 24, 1969. The Command Module (CM) Columbia and the crew of Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins were successfully recovered and delivered aboard the prime …

A moonlit tribute to a moon landing icon

““There was no choice but to be pioneers.” That’s how Margaret Hamilton describes working on the software that put us on the moon. Margaret led the team that developed the onboard flight software for all of NASA’s manned …

AI Radar System That Can Spot Miniature Drones 3km away

“DGIST announced on Tuesday, July 16 that Senior Researcher Dae-gun Oh’s team in the Collaborative Robots Research Center developed a radar system that can detect subminiature drones that are 3km away. This research is expected to make huge contributions …

An Airbus futuristic conceptual airliner “takes flight” to inspire next-generation engineers

“Airbus has unveiled a bird-like conceptual airliner design with the goal of motivating the next generation of aeronautical engineers, underscoring how they can make a difference by applying technologies researched at the company in hybrid-electric propulsion, active control systems and …

Arduino Magnetometer

“What are we building? Humans can’t detect magnetic fields, but we use devices that rely on magnets all the time. Motors, compasses, rotation sensors, and wind turbines, for example, all require magnets for operation. This tutorial describes how to …

Arduino MIDI Chiptune Synthesizer

“Relive the fun of early computer game music with an authentic 8-bit chiptune synthesizer, which you can control over MIDI from the comfort of any modern DAW software. This simple circuit uses an Arduino to drive an AY-3-8910 programmable …