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Helping fuel cells beat the heat

“A strategy for stabilizing silver films could make high-efficiency fuel cells usable in portable devices Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) offer a stable and efficient way to generate clean electrochemical power, but are impractical for use in portable devices because …

Hotter than the sun: Chinese fusion reactor claims breakthrough

“China’s “artificial sun” has reached a temperature of 180 million ºF with a heating power of 10 megawatts, according to scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics, where the experiment was conducted. That’s six …

How to Make an Arduino Radar

“This is a radar, designed to detect the distance and direction an object is from the ultrasonic sensor. With the ultrasonic sensor connected to a servo, it has the ability to rotate 180 degress, similar to a radar utilised to …

How to make an RC airplane from a red bull)

“Red Bull gives you wings, but can you give Red Bull wings to fly RC? We have a passion for making strange things fly here at Flite Test. Last week, I challenged myself to make a Red Bull fly. Here …

How to Switch Off a Joule Thief During Daylight

“The battery life of a Joule Thief circuit can be drastically increased if the device is switched off during daylight. This Instructable shows an extremely simple way of doing it.”

HRE Wheels partners with GE Additive to create first 3D-printed titanium wheel

“HRE Wheels and GE Additive announced a partnership agreement today and unveiled the first titanium wheel created using EBM technology (a type of 3D printing). Known as “HRE3D+”, this new prototype wheel shows what the future of wheel technology will …

‘Human brain’ supercomputer with 1 million processors switched on for first time

“The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain does has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for the first time. The newly formed …

I2C GPS Module PCB

“This is a compact GPS module with an I2C interface, making it easy to read the GPS parameters from another project without needing to worry about parsing the NMEA sentences. It’s a PCB-mounted version of my earlier project …

Imec, Ghent University and SEED Demonstrate Electronics in Hydrogel-based Soft Lenses

“At the imec technology forum Japan (ITF Japan 2018), imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, the Ghent University (UGent), and contact lens manufacturer SEED Co., Ltd. announced that they have developed a contact lens …

Improved WeatherStation 20x4

“Temperature, humidity and barometric pressure showing a comparison to a previous point in time and graphing the trend. Story I wanted to get more meaningful information from a basic temperature, humidity and pressure setup and I figured the way to …