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Make a Countdown Timer With Micro:bit

“Countdown Timer is very common in our daily life. It helps to remind you to do something on time in case of any possible delay or error. For example, a pedometer or a baking timer. Today we are going to …

Mbed OS 5.8.4 released

“We are pleased to announce the Mbed OS 5.8.4 release is now available. This is the latest patch release based on the feature set that Mbed-OS-5.8 introduces. Summary In this release we have updated the …

Motorized Turntable

“When you think of the word turntable, you might think of something that you play a record on, but for this project, at least, we’re going to build a different type of turntable. A turntable, in the video and …

Penn Neurosurgeons and Otolaryngologists Perform First-in-World Robot-Assisted Spinal Surgery

“Robotic approach assists with a three-part, two-day complex procedure for rare tumor removal Noah Pernikoff is back to his life in New York City after becoming the first patient in the world to undergo a complex three-part, robotic-assisted surgery. The …

Physicists at FAU generate attosecond electron pulses with laser light

“Processes in the atomic microcosmos are revealed Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have successfully generated controlled electron pulses in the attosecond range. They used optical travelling waves that are formed by laser pulses of varying wavelengths. The movements of electrons …

Publish an Event with ESP8266 via Wia’s MQTT API

“In this tutorial, we’ll go through setting up an ESP8266 board, and publishing an Event to Wia via our MQTT API. Connecting the board Note: If your board has a micro USB port, you can probably skip this step …

Project  QuizzPi

QuizzPi

“QuizzPi is an arcade type trivia game. QuizzPi was born becasuse I had the need to give my daughter an entertainment. She is 7 years old and she already demands the use of new technologies, the idea was to create …

Researcher develops a new generation of graphene

“The material graphene has many incredible properties, but to date it has been difficult to use on a large scale in industry, because it loses its unique properties and goes back to its origin graphite. Researcher Mamoun Taher has developed …

Theory for one type of superconductor solves puzzle in another

“‘Orbital-selective pairing’ theory applied to first ‘heavy fermion’ superconductor A 2017 theory proposed by Rice University physicists to explain the contradictory behavior of an iron-based high-temperature superconductor is helping solve a puzzle in a different type of unconventional superconductor, the …

555 PWM Motor Controller

“I often face a situation when I want to test a motor, sometimes for my projects, sometimes just to see if it works. The simplest solution is just to connect it to a battery or some kind of power supply …