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Designer layered materials put a colorful twist on sensing

“Layers of color-changing plastic can be tuned by hosting organic or metallic ‘guests’, enabling easy-to-read measurements of heat and friction A smart polymer developed at Keio University responds to stimuli by absorbing different wavelengths of light, allowing minor changes to …

Email Home Automation

“With this project, I tried to make my home “smart,” but took a different route, completely avoiding voice commands. In this project, I will show you how to start designing and coding for home automation using Node-RED on the …

ESP32 and Radio Lora 10x More Powerful!

“Can you imagine a 1W Radio LoRa that is 10 times more powerful than the traditional 0.1W ones? Well today Ill introduce you to the E44-TTL-1W module, which is exactly this. This model has a transistor in …

Five Finger Code Finder

“A device to quickly crack PIN codes on Ford automobiles with a PIN entry keypad, and to demonstrate the shortcomings of this system. The Five Finger Code Finder is an electromechanical device and software designed to efficiently find the PIN …

Hot Off The Press: 3D Printing Has Pushed This Gas Turbine To New Highs

“In 2012, Andrew Passmore thought he had taken a machine to its limits. His team of engineers had just upgraded a gas turbine powerful enough to supply with electricity the equivalent of 200,000 European homes. It was the second …

Learn Six Oscilloscope Measurements with an Arduino DUT

“One of the best ways to learn how to use a new piece of test equipment is to use it. Sounds easy, right? The problem is, sometimes when you are in the middle of troubleshooting your circuit, figuring out what …

Make Your Own 1D Pong Game

“For this project I will show you how I combined an MDF board with buzzer buttons, LEDs and an Arduino Nano in order to create a 1D Pong Game that is really fun to play. Along the way I will …

Project  Maker Badge

Maker Badge

“If you are a maker you must like making to stuff. We all do! Isn’t it awesome when someone asks you what are you doing and you are like “I am just making cool things with my hands”? When …

Method could be boost to large scale production of graphene

“The measure by which any conductor is judged is how easily, and speedily, electrons can move through it. On this point, graphene is one of the most promising materials for a breathtaking array of applications. However, its ultra-high electron mobility …

Mysterious IceCube event may be caused by a tau neutrino

“Theoretical physicists calculate the origin of a high-energy particle track captured by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory It was just eight years ago that the IceCube detector, a research center located at the South Pole to detect neutrinos emanating from the …