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IoT Based Fingerprint Attendance System Using Evive (Arduino Based Embedded Platform)

“Now, you can easily track attendance and clock working hours with the help of this easy and fun to make DIY fingerprint scanner! Well be using ThingSpeak to store and retrieve the data. All you require is a cardboard piece …

LED NeoPixel Corset with Circuit Playground Express and MakeCode

“Create your own bespoke glowing NeoPixel corset and smile to yourself as all the heads in the room turn to follow you. Line your perfect silhouette with 500 programmable lights that show you off like a fairy disco queen. What …

LoRa ESP32 Radios - Easy Getting Started Tutorial

“Easily get started with LoRa Radios without much wiring. This is possible by using stackable modules from DFRobot. Today we are going to make a project which is basically about setting up LoRa radios to talk with each other in …

Materials Design in 3D: from the Molecule to the Macrostructure

““3D Matter Made to Order” Cluster of Excellence of KIT and Heidelberg University Starts and Focuses on Printed Three-dimensional Design Structures Additive processes, such as 3D printing, can be used to produce nearly any structure, even in the nanoscale. Depending …

Mi Band Home Automation

“Use a Mi band 2/3 to switch ON/OFF devices like fan, light or anything else that comes to your mind. In this DIY project, we are using a Mi band 2 (or you can use Mi band 3 …

MPLAB Harmony Version 3.0 Unifies Software Development Framework for PIC and SAM Microcontrollers

“Enhanced tool chain accelerates development with modular software downloads and simplified drivers From basic device configuration to Real Time Operating System (RTOS)-based designs, 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) applications vary vastly in complexity and development models. To help developers simplify and …

Nanocrystal ‘Factory’ Could Revolutionize Quantum Dot Manufacturing

“North Carolina State University researchers have developed a microfluidic system for synthesizing perovskite quantum dots across the entire spectrum of visible light. The system drastically reduces manufacturing costs, can be tuned on demand to any color and allows for real-time …

NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises

“A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from an asteroid’s surface. Bennu also revealed itself to be more rugged …

New Study Examines How Tiny Gas Pockets Affect 3D Printing

“Additive manufacturing’s promise to revolutionize industry is constrained by a widespread problem: tiny gas pockets in the final product, which can lead to cracks and other failures. New research published in Science, led by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University …

“Particle robot” works as a cluster of simple units

“Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving en masse to transport objects. Taking a cue from biological cells, researchers from MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have developed computationally simple robots that connect in large groups to …