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Electric car batteries inspire safer, cheaper way to manufacture compounds used in medicines

“Recent advances in battery technology, from the engineering of their cases to the electrochemistry that takes place inside them, has enabled the rapid rise of Teslas, Leafs, Volts and other electric cars. Now, scientists at Scripps Research, inspired by the …

ESP32 + MPU9250: 3D Orientation Visualisation

“Visualizing MPU9250 3D orientation data on the web page hosted by ESP32. Using websockets and JSON to send orientation data. MPU9250 is one of the most popular IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) available on the market. It combines not only 3D …

ESP32_CoinCell

“ESP32 Project with sensors and tiny display powered by a coin cell This is an ESP32 Pico D4 project with an accelerometer and 0.69” oled display powered by a rechargeable LIR2450 coin cell. I was not made for any …

ESP8266 WiFi Air Conditioner Remote Control

“We recently started exploring the ESP8266 boards and today’s project is going to be an interesting one based on this WiFi module. We are going to build an ESP8266 based WiFi Air condition Remote Controller. While this project can …

Exploring the global landscape of quantum technology research

“Leading quantum technology experts from around the world have explored their respective regional and national goals for the future of the field, in a new focus issue of Quantum Science and Technology (QST). The first five articles in the collection …

Failed 1970s Venus Probe Could Crash to Earth This Year

“Here’s another warning about incoming space hardware — but this saga has an interplanetary connection. First, we have to peel back space history to the early 1970s, just after the height of the Cold War space-race between the Soviet Union …

Fast, Flexible Ionic Transistors for Bioelectronic Devices

“Many major advances in medicine, especially in neurology, have been sparked by recent advances in electronic systems that can acquire, process, and interact with biological substrates. These bioelectronic systems, which are increasingly used to understand dynamic living organisms and to …

Faux Nixie Tube Clock

“I love retro tech. It’s so much fun to play with older tech since they are usually larger and more aesthetic than modern equivalents. The only problem with old tech such as Nixie tubes is that they are rare …

FLOC Takes Flight: First Portable Prototype of Photonic Pressure Sensor

“In collaboration with industry, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first portable prototype of the Fixed-Length Optical Cavity (FLOC), a device that uses light to measure pressure with higher accuracy and precision than …

Getting Started with Zephyr RTOS on Nordic nRF52832 hackaBLE

“Introduction I worked for almost two decades in the software industry. In the early 2000s, I was developing applications on Windows, Linux, and various flavours of Unix. On the Windows side, we had Microsoft Visual Studio, MFC, NMake, and CL …