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Scrolling Text Display (A to Z Guide)

“In this instructable / video I will guide you with step by step instructions how to make scrolling text display with Arduino. I won’t be explaining how to make code for Arduino, I will show you how to use existing …

Solar LED Heart Ornament

“Made a cool ornament for wife, scroll down to bottom for some cool pictures & videos ;^) Another year another lot of important dates that warrant a gift for the wife. This year I decided to try and use the SPV1040 to …

SparkFun WiFi IR Blaster Hookup Guide

“With the advent of WiFi-connected “smart” devices, IR remotes are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Why sort through a coffee table-full of remotes when you probably have a much smarter, WiFi-connected device device sitting conveniently in your hand …

Stretched Quantum Magnetism Uncovered by Quantum Simulation

“By studying ultracold atoms trapped in artificial crystals of light, Guillaume Salomon, a postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics and a team of scientists have been able to directly observe a fundamental effect of one-dimensional quantum systems. By detecting …

“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid

“Design for system that provides solar- or wind-generated power on demand should be cheaper than other leading options. MIT engineers have come up with a conceptual design for a system to store renewable energy, such as solar and wind power …

Supercomputers without waste heat

“Physicists from the University of Konstanz explore superconductivity for information processing Generally speaking, magnetism and the lossless flow of electrical current (“superconductivity”) are competing phenomena that cannot coexist in the same sample. However, for building supercomputers, synergetically combining both states …

Terahertz laser for sensing and imaging outperforms its predecessors

“High-power, tunable design could be used for chemical detection in outer space, medical imaging, more. A terahertz laser designed by MIT researchers is the first to reach three key performance goals at once — high constant power, tight beam pattern, and …

Tiny bubbles break each other up

“Rice University engineers demonstrate mechanics of making foam with bubbles in distinct sizes It’s easy to make bubbles, but try making hundreds of thousands of them a minute – all the same size. Rice University engineers can do that and …

Two-dimensional materials skip the energy barrier by growing one row at a time

“Confirming a century-old prediction could help scientists construct new classes of materials A new collaborative study led by a research team at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and University of California, Los Angeles could provide engineers …

USB Mass Storage Device Bootloader

“Let’s start with a video. It will tell you most of what I’m going to write about today. First of all, I have completed the USB bootloader for the solar charger. This part of the project will enable …