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Nixie Clock / Display / Full Build

“It has been more than a year since I posted an instructable. I finished high school, got into college to study Electrical Engineering and now with my first year completed and much deserved holidays, I will write a few instructables …

Organizing Quantum Dots May Improve Consumer Electronics

“Carnegie Mellon University Materials Science and Engineering Professor Michael Bockstaller and his team are working on ways for quantum dots, or nanoparticles created from a specific semiconductor, to self-assemble into organized patterns. The research may help improve the quality of …

Research Brief: Researchers 3D print prototype for ‘bionic eye’

“A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have, for the first time, fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface. This discovery marks a significant step toward creating a “bionic eye” that could someday …

Researchers Reveal Ultrahigh Electrochemical Sensing of Heavy Metal Ions via Defect and Phase-Engineering

“In a paper published in Chemical Communications, the research group jointly led by Prof. HUANG Xingjiu from Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science prepared Mn-MoS2 Nanosheets for ultrasensitive electrochemical detection of heavy metal ions. The team found …

Researchers Turn Tracking Codes into Unclonable “Clouds” to Authenticate Genuine 3D Printed Parts

“Researchers at NYU Tandon and NYU Abu Dhabi are the First to Convert Flat QR Codes into Complex Features Hidden within 3D-Printed Parts to Foil Counterfeiters and IP Pirates The worldwide market for 3D-printed parts is a $5 billion business …

RGB Infinity Mirror with 3D Magnetic Sensor

“An infinity mirror with an RGB LED strip that can change its color using Infineon’s 3D magnetic sensor knob connected to an Arduino MKR1000. When I saw the infinity mirror effect for the first time, I was impressed with …

Rice U. lab finds evidence of matter-matter coupling

“Physicists show first proof of Dicke cooperativity in a matter-matter system After their recent pioneering experiments to couple light and matter to an extreme degree, Rice University scientists decided to look for a similar effect in matter alone. They didn …

Safe Shutdown and Auto Bootup for Raspberry Pi

“Have someone pulling the plug on your project, or perhaps an unstable or unreliable power supply? Here is the fix! Introduction Whether it’s a media center, file server, web server, robot, car PC, or an arcade console, a battery-less …

Scientists Make New Transistors Working Without Electricity Supporting

“Chinese researchers developed new transistors with all optical inputs which could work without electricity supporting making them applicable in some electricity forbidden environment. Transistors are the most important semiconductor components widely used in electronic equipment like computer, mobile phone and …

Solved! Caltech Researcher Helps Crack Decades-Old Math Problem

“Spiros Michalakis, manager of outreach and staff researcher at Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), and Matthew Hastings, a researcher at Microsoft, have solved one of the world’s most challenging open problems in the field of …