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How to program materials

“Can the properties of composite materials be predicted? Empa scientists have mastered this feat and thus can help achieve research objectives faster. This leads, for instance, to better recycling techniques and electrically conductive synthetic materials for the solar industry. Ali …

HPE to acquire supercomputing leader Cray

“Accelerates HPE’s strategy to tackle customers’ most data-intensive challenges by combining deep supercomputing talent and cutting-edge technologies - Establishes the most comprehensive end-to-end portfolio across compute, storage, interconnect, software and services in the fast growing High Performance Computing and Artificial …

Project  huBulb

huBulb

“Phillips Hue style bulb, 3D printed. ESP8288 with MQTT support. Started this project because I wanted a Hue type bulb that didn’t require a hub or some 3rd party application. I wanted it to integrate with Home Assistant via …

Illuminated Button Matrix

“This article describes a 4 x 4 matrix of illuminated pushbuttons with a two-wire I2C interface, controlled by an ATtiny88, that you can use for games, music, or control applications: You can independently set the state of the lights, or …

Interactive quantum chemistry in virtual reality

“Scientists from the University of Bristol’s Intangible Realities Laboratory (IRL) and ETH Zurich have used virtual reality and artificial intelligence algorithms to learn the details of chemical change. In a cover article published today in The Journal of Physical …

Little Flash

“Little Flash runs for twenty minutes, charges in ten seconds. Little Flash is a 3d printed robot powered by ultracapacitors. To prevent getting stuck, she uses a bump switch, motor overcurrent detection and random path adjustments. Little Flash is powered …

Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam

“New method could be useful for building quantum sensors and computers. The ultimate degree of control for engineering would be the ability to create and manipulate materials at the most basic level, fabricating devices atom by atom with precise control …

Mathematicians revive abandoned approach to the Riemann Hypothesis

“Many ways to approach the Riemann Hypothesis have been proposed during the past 150 years, but none of them have led to conquering the most famous open problem in mathematics. A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy …

Microsoft and the BMW Group launch the Open Manufacturing Platform

“Companies are partners in a new initiative to drive open industrial IoT development and help grow a community to build future Industry 4.0 solutions Technology framework and open community to share smart factory solutions across the automotive and manufacturing …

Motion Controlled Timelapse

“Timelapses are great! They help us take a look into the slow-moving world which we might forget to appreciate the beauty of it. But sometimes a steady timelapse video can be boring or there are so many things happening around …