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Walbi, the Walking Biped

“Meet Walbi, a 2:1 scale humanoid with Arduino programs for motion capture and playback. Move it by hand, record and then play it back. Wouldn’t it be great if we could make a biped robot with some servos …

World’s smallest wearable device warns of UV exposure, enables precision phototherapy

“Smaller than an M&M and thinner than a credit card, device can optimize treatment of neonatal jaundice, skin diseases, seasonal affective disorder and reduce risk of sunburns and skin cancer. The world’s smallest wearable, battery-free device has been …

Orange PI

Orange Pi One It’s an open-source single-board computer. It can run Android 4.4, Ubuntu, Debian, Rasberry Pi Image, as well as the banana pi Image. It uses the AllWinner H3 SoC, and has 512MB DDR3 SDRAM Specifications CPU …

2 kids get artificial limbs using 3D printing facility at Kasturba Hospital

“Two children with deformities have received artificial limb printed (manufactured) at “ Hastha” Department of Orthopaedics, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal. The revolutionary 3D printing facility for artificial limb manufacturing at “Hastha” was inaugurated by Dr. H. Vinod Bhat, Vice Chancellor, MAHE, Manipal …

4*4*4 LED Cube Using Arduino Embedded Prototyping Platform

“And a one, and a two! Christmas, Christmas time is here! And so is the time give our homes a colourful festive makeover! This year, were going to up our home-decorating skills and add a touch of DIYing to it …

A Breathing Light, Controlled by a Raspbery Pi

“The “Breathing Exercise Light” described here is a simple and relatively inexpensive pulsing light that may support you in your breathing execises and help you to keep a constant breathing rhythm. It could also be used e.g. as a …

A new light on significantly faster computer memory devices

“In an article published online today in Science Advances, a team of scientists from Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences and Germany offer an explanation of how a particular phase-change memory (PCM) material can work a thousand times …

Adding graphene to jute fibres could give natural alternative to man-made materials

“Scientists from The University of Manchester have combined graphene with the natural fibre, jute, to create a world’s first for graphene-strengthened natural jute fibre composites. The breakthrough could lead to the manufacturing of high-performance and environmentally friendly natural fibre …

After 26 straight successes, SpaceX fails to land Falcon 9 it wanted back

“Something unexpected happened after the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station—the first-stage booster did not come back to Earth as intended. Instead, it made an unscheduled landing in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the …

An important step towards completely secure quantum communication networks

“The quest for a secure information network is on. Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have recently succeeded in boosting the storage time of quantum information, using a small glass container filled with room temperature atoms, taking …