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Arduino Watch Core

“This instructables show how to use a square color display and Arduino dev board build a watch core. This will cover the topics of dev board selection, display selection, extra modules selection, UI design, performance tuning and power saving. Note …

Army project may advance quantum materials, efficient communication networks

“A U.S. Army project exploring novel applications of superconducting resonators has discovered these systems may be used to simulate quantum materials impossible to otherwise fabricate. Additionally, they may provide insights to open and fundamental questions in quantum mechanics and …

Bidding farewell to Tiangong-2, China prepares for space station

“After orbiting the earth 16,209 times, it burned itself into ashes, flaming out in a dazzling display as its last gift to humanity. China’s space lab Tiangong-2 reentered the earth’s atmosphere under control Friday night, with a …

Blinds Control With ESP8266, Google Home and Openhab Integration and Webcontrol

“In this Instructable I show you how I added automation to my blinds. I wanted to be able to add and remove it, so all installation is clip on. The main parts are: Stepper motor Stepper driver controlled bij ESP …

CNC Actuator Plotter

“This instructable explains how to make a CNC plotter using an Arduino Uno R3, an SG90 servo, two NEMA 17 stepper motors, a few pulleys, and a short length of aluminium extrusion. Construction is simple … all you need are a …

DC Motor Driver Using Power Mosfets

“DC motors are everywhere, from hobby applications to robotics and industrial areas. Therefore there is wide usage and request for suitable and powerful DC motor drivers. In this article, we will learn to build one. You can control it using …

Easy to Build FM Transmitter

“Learn to build your own mini FM transmitter. This fun project will show you how to build a mini broadcasting device that can transmit an audio signal up to a quarter mile to any FM receiver. It’s easy to …

Emory mathematician to present a proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture

“The Sensitivity Conjecture has stood as one of the most important, and baffling, open problems in theoretical computer science for nearly three decades. It appears to have finally met its match through work by Hao Huang, an assistant professor of …

ESP32 Tutorial: Some Built-In Capabilities

“The ESP32s, are a series of inexpensive microcontrollers, introduced in the last quarter of 2016. They are powerful systems on a chip (SoC) and can replace the ESP2866, and perhaps one might say even the Arduino UNO. Athough, clearly they …

Exceptional sense of touch for robots and prosthetics

“Robots and prosthetic devices may soon have a sense of touch equivalent to, or better than, the human skin with the Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES), an artificial nervous system developed by a team of NUS researchers. The new electronic …