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Experts build pulsed air rig to test 3D printed parts for low carbon engines

“The new Transient Air System Rig (TASR) was designed and built by Dr Aaron Costall and his team from Imperial College London’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. The researchers hope it will help makers of large off-road and freight vehicles …

Fast-Charging Lithium-Oxygen Batteries

“KAIST researchers have paved the way for fast-charging lithium-oxygen batteries. Professor Hye Ryung Byon from the Department of Chemistry and Professor Yousung Jung from the Graduate School of EEWS led a joint research team to develop lithium-oxygen batteries exhibiting 80 …

NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars

“NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in the Martian atmosphere that relates to the search for current life on …

Qi- Special Shelves

“We built this library commissioned by MUDEC of Milan to present the meaning of a statue of a Chinese chimera. Each shelf has an hexagonal shape and express a meaning for this statue and for its culture. Everything is connected …

Radio LoRa Ra-01 With STM32 and ESP32

“As this is a popular subject among those following my posts, I decided to talk about LoRa today. However, Im going to discuss the subject with some new elements: this time without using the ESP32, but the STM32 instead. I …

Scanlime-in-Progress Indicator (aka YouTube Live Indicator)

“Never miss your favourite YouTube channel going live again with this Particle Photon-based indicator. I’m a big fan of the scanlime-in-progress live streams Micah Elizabeth Scott (Scanlime) does under the watchful eye of Tuco the cat. Micah’s streams …

Transparent, Conductive Films Promising for Developing Flexible Screens

“Researchers have demonstrated large-scale fabrication of a new type of transparent conductive electrode film based on nanopatterned silver. Smartphone touch screens and flat panel televisions use transparent electrodes to detect touch and to quickly switch the color of each pixel …

32 Shades of Grey

“Portable NTSC test pattern generator This project implements a low cost portable NTSC video pattern generator for testing monochrome video systems regarding gain and resolution. The circuit provides a video output with voltage and impedance according with the RS-170 …

A Dramatic Improvement in Electron Mobility by Using an Ultra-thin, Single-Crystalline Film of Germanium

“Researchers: Wen Hsin Chang, AIST Researcher, the Nanoelectronics Research Institute, Toshifumi Irisawa, Senior Researcher, 3D Integration System Group of the institute, and Tatsuro Maeda, Research Manager of the institute Summary The researchers have developed a method for fabricating a uniform …

A drone made for a dark night (Or a Dark Knight)

“To get drones to fly around complicated obstacles in the dark by themselves, University of Cincinnati researchers are turning to the pros. Bats have evolved to use sound and echolocation to navigate and find food. Their sonar is so keen …