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Light provides control for 3D printing with multiple materials

“3D printing has revolutionized the fields of healthcare, biomedical engineering, manufacturing and art design. Successful applications have come despite the fact that most 3D printing techniques can only produce parts made of one material at a time. More complex applications …

Liquid has structure, which may be key to understanding metallic glass

“Researchers have found that liquid has structure in certain circumstances, and that this structure significantly influences the mysterious and complex formation of metallic glasses. Moldable like plastic but strong like metal, metallic glasses are a relatively new class of materials …

Listening to quantum radio

“Researchers at Delft University of Technology have created a quantum circuit that enables them to listen to the weakest radio signal allowed by quantum mechanics. This new quantum circuit opens the door to possible future applications in areas such as …

Machines whisper our secrets

“Lab instruments are important tools throughout research and health care. But what if those instruments are leaking valuable information? When it comes to biosecurity, this could be a very real threat, according to a group of researchers at the University …

Magnetization Reversal achieved at room temperature using only an electric field

“Scientists at Tokyo Tech achieved magnetization reversal in cobalt-substituted bismuth ferrite by applying only an electric field. Such an effect had been sought after for over a decade in order to make new types of low-power-consumption magnetic memory devices. In …

Making a USB Game Controller

“Here at NextFab, we designed a fully functional, USB game controller for Philly Tech Week. This project will be particularly tricky without some more serious electronics equipment or a local makerspace with the proper tools, but we thought we would …

Making Green Cars Greener

“CMU Researchers Examine Ways To Recycle Electric Vehicle Batteries. The widespread implementation of electric vehicles will go a long way toward eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation sector. But these emissions don’t just come from the tailpipe …

Making the World a Lot Quieter

“Mechanical engineers have developed an “acoustic metamaterial” that can cancel 94 percent of sound What sounds would you mute if you could? A pair of Boston University mechanical engineers are asking that question, with the ever-increasing din of drone propellers …

Project  midi-grid

midi-grid

“midi-grid is an open source MIDI controller, main part of which is 8x8 LED iluminated button grid. Main features of the device: 8x8 RGB LED illuminated button matrix 17 additional MIDI control buttons, most of them paired with RGB LED …

Minimal ATSAMD21 Computer

“This project describes how to build an ATSAMD21-based computer on a prototyping board using the minimum number of components, and program it from the Arduino IDE. I give two alternative methods of uploading a bootloader to the bare ATSAMD21 …