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AVR Microcontrollers Now Supported in MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment

“Designers who have traditionally used Microchip’s PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) and developed with the MPLAB® ecosystem can now easily evaluate and incorporate AVR® MCUs into their applications. The majority of AVR MCUs are now beta supported with the release of …

Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica’s Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics

“There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it. Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray …

Building a better and bulkier Roku remote

“The Roku TV is perfect for watching Netflix but I don’t like the remote. Although the little box is small and easy to use, the infrared range is pretty bad. I almost always reach out for the iOS app …

Curiosity Rover to Temporarily Switch ‘Brains’

“NASA Curiosity Mission Status Report Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week commanded the agency’s Curiosity rover to switch to its second computer. The switch will enable engineers to do a detailed diagnosis of …

Custom PCBs on a CNC Router

“I bought a CNC router last spring to do some woodworking and to mill aluminum. I’m also an obsessive electronics tinkerer, and I later realized that I had inadvertently taken my tinkering abilities to another level when I added …

Defects promise quantum communication through standard optical fiber

“An international team of scientists led by the University of Groningen’s Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials has identified a way to create quantum bits that emit photons that describe their state at wavelengths close to those used by telecom …

ESP8266 WIFI AP Controlled Quadruped Robot

“This is tutorial to make a 12 DOF or four leg (quadruped) robot using SG90 servo with servo driver and it can be controlled using WIFI Web server via smartphone browser Total cost for this project is around US $55 …

Flexible Piezoelectric Acoustic Sensors for Speaker Recognition

“A KAIST research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Material Science and Engineering has developed a machine learning-based acoustic sensor for speaker recognition. Acoustic sensors were spotlighted as one of the most intuitive bilateral communication …

Flowing Salt Water Over This Super-Hydrophobic Surface Can Generate Electricity

“Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a super-hydrophobic surface that can be used to generate electrical voltage. When salt water flows over this specially patterned surface, it can produce at least 50 millivolts. The proof-of-concept work …

Gyro radio controller

“This is a radio controller that has 2 analog channels and the data is out from a MPU6050 gyro module. So, we could control a toy car for example just by rotating the controller. I usually use the NRF24 module …