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Pocket Metal Locator - Arduino

“This cool little Pocket Metal Locator is sensitive enough to identify small nails and tacks in wood and compact enough to fit into awkward spaces making it convenient to carry and use for metal locating. The unit has four independent …

Professor’s Processor May End Silence for Those Without a Voice

“A UT Dallas professor hopes to provide a voice to individuals who have no larynx and are unable to produce vocal sounds on their own. Dr. Jun Wang, assistant professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and …

Scientists Turn X-ray Laser Into World’s Fastest Water Heater

“Experiments at SLAC heated water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than a millionth of a millionth of a second, producing an exotic state of water that could shed light on Earth’s most important liquid …

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Soft Machines

“UCSB researchers develop a fast, low-voltage actuator for soft and wearable robotics In the world of robotics, soft robots are the new kids on the block. The unique capabilities of these automata are to bend, deform, stretch, twist or squeeze …

SpaceX Launches Twin NASA Probes to Track Earth’s Water (and Satellites Hitch a Ride)

“SpaceX launched two new Earth science satellites for NASA and five Iridium Next communications satellites into orbit today (May 22). The ride-share mission lifted off on a pre-flown Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 3 …

Stickman: Towards a Human Scale Acrobatic Robot

“We present a simple two degree of freedom robot that uses a gravity-driven pendulum launch and produces a variety of somersaulting stunts. Human performers have developed impressive acrobatic techniques over thousands of years of practicing the gymnastic arts. At the …

Strain game: Leveraging imperfections to create better-behaved quantum dots

“Potentially paving the way toward advanced computers, lasers or optical devices, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have revealed new effects in tiny electronic devices called quantum dots. In their work, published recently in the journal Nano Letters, the researchers developed and …

Tiny Scope for Arduino

“Features - Configurable ADC speed for sampling rates from 10KHz to 300KHz (on UNO) - Auto grid on time base from 2ms to 50us (on UNO) - Vmax calibration and 3.3-5V detection using internal reference - 0V auto trigger - Display minimum-maximum voltage of …

Tunable diamond string may hold key to quantum memory

“A process similar to guitar tuning improves storage time of quantum memory A quantum internet promises completely secure communication. But using quantum bits or qubits to carry information requires a radically new piece of hardware – a quantum memory. This atomic-scale …

Wedding / Event Photobooth

“Hi everybody, I got married last year, when we’re looking for preparation of the D-day, we went on a lot of wedding conventions. On every convention there is a Photobooth renter, I thought that a photobooth was a great …