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A bionic mushroom that generates electricity

“In the quest to replace fossil fuels, scientists are always on the lookout for alternative, environmentally friendly sources of energy. But who could have imagined a bionic mushroom that produces electricity? It sounds like something straight out of Alice in …

A new way to provide cooling without power

“Device developed at MIT could provide refrigeration for off-grid locations. MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. The passive system, which could be …

A starch and graphene hydrogel geared towards electrodes for brain implants is developed

“Hydrogels with electrical and antibacterial properties suitable for neural interfaces have been created in a piece of work at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country The Materials + Technology research group at the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Engineering …

Accelerating 3-D printing

“Researchers have designed a novel printhead that works with unprecedented speed and pioneered ways to melt and extrude renewable materials. Recent work from an MIT lab may help 3-D printing fulfill its long-standing promise to transform manufacturing by enabling the …

Amazon Web Services Announces 13 New Machine Learning Services and Capabilities, Including a Custom Chip for Machine Learning Inference, and a 1/18 Scale Autonomous Race Car for Developers

“New Amazon SageMaker capabilities make it easier for customers to build, train, and deploy models; SageMaker Ground Truth produces high-quality labeled training data, SageMaker RL delivers cloud’s first managed service for reinforcement learning algorithms and simulators, and a new …

Arcade Stick for PC and Raspberry Pi

“Genuine arcade fightsticks are generally expensive. A lot of the more popular ones are made for fighting games and cost around the $200 mark. There are cheaper ones that don’t last as long but will still give you a …

Arduino DIY Bluetooth Controller LED RGB Strip

“Hello everybody, this is the second project I want to share with you!Today I will show you how to connect Arduino and Bluetooth module and later use it to control a LED RGB Strip. In this tutorial we will …

Arduino Mega + WiFi = Automation

“Today, Ill talk about an assembly that was suggested by many followers: Arduino Mega + ESP. This will include an automation project with 16 relays, three sensors, and a smartphone. Well make a Web Server for the Arduino Mega using serial …

Arduino Powered Bi-directional DC-DC Converter

“This project started as a way to create an universal digitally controlled switch mode power supply module base on the Arduino development platform. As I worked on the design, the platform turn out to be an excellent bi-directional DC-DC …

Audio Amplifier | Simple & Powerful

“This amplifier is simple but pretty powerful, it uses just one MOSFET transistor in it.”