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Dub Siren Synth - 555 Timers

“Dub Siren! Man – I didn’t even know that these existed until a DJ friend asked me to make him one. I had to do some digging (a lot of digging actually – there isn’t much on the net surprisingly …

Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s unique computing power

“Neurons in human and rat brains carry electrical signals in different ways, scientists find. Neurons in the human brain receive electrical signals from thousands of other cells, and long neural extensions called dendrites play a critical role in incorporating all …

Exploring new spintronics device functionalities in graphene heterostructures

“Graphene Flagship researchers have shown in a paper published in Science Advances how heterostructures built from graphene and topological insulators have strong, proximity induced spin-orbit coupling which can form the basis of novel information processing technologies. Spin-orbit coupling is at …

First proof of quantum computer advantage

“Scientists develop new quantum circuit Quantum computers promise to revolutionize the future of computing. A scientist from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) together with his colleagues from the University of Waterloo and from IBM have now demonstrated for the …

Game of Life-Based Lighting

“Conway’s Game of Life is a cellular automaton based zero player game. It can be used to create some brilliant lighting effects. Background A few weeks ago I showed a project I had created to monitor the temperature in …

Goodbye, silicon?

“Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz (Germany) together with scientists from Dresden, Leipzig, Sofia (Bulgaria) and Madrid (Spain) have now developed and characterized a novel, metal-organic material which displays electrical properties mimicking those …

Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications

“Researchers from the Cambridge Graphene Centre, together with industrial and academic collaborators within the European Graphene Flagship project, showed that integrated graphene-based photonic devices offer a solution for the next generation of optical communications. The researchers have demonstrated how properties …

Intel Artificial Intelligence and Rolls-Royce Push Full Steam ahead on Autonomous Shipping

“Rolls-Royce* builds shipping systems that are sophisticated and intelligent – and eventually it will add fully autonomous to that portfolio – as it makes commercial shipping safer and more efficient. It’s doing so using artificial intelligence (AI) powered by Intel® Xeon …

Interactive Spooky Halloween Cat

“Check out this distance sensing Halloween prop designed to spook the willies out of trick-or-treaters. As we approach the end of October, the spooky Halloween energy is starting to find its way into my world. I’m not much of …

IOTTemp - WEMOS Based Cheap, Durable Temperature and Humidity Internet Logger With Display.

“I wanted to share a small project that I think you will like. It is a small, durable internet enabled temperature and humidity internet logger with display. This logs to emoncms.org and optionally, either locally to a Raspberry PI …