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Mastermind With an 8x8 RGB LED Matrix

“Required parts: Basys3 FPGA 8x8 RGB LED Matrix by GEEETECH 9V battery 2N3904 transistors (x32) 1K resistor (x32) 100 Ohm resistor (x1) 50 Ohm resistor (x1) The LED Matrix is a common anode matrix with 32 total pins. The common …

“MicroDot” for LattePanda (or Raspberry Pi)

“The MicroDot is a home-made Alexa ‘button’ designed to be connected to a LattePanda or a Raspberry Pi, with Alexa Sample App installed. It is a small speaker with LED’s and touch/speech activation, and is ideal for use …

Milliohm Meter

“This is an accurate milliohm meter with a maximum resolution of 0.1mOhm. The design is very simple, the whole assembly can be built in a couple of hours once all the parts are gathered. It is based on a …

Project  Minesweeper

Minesweeper

“For our CPE 133 final project, Chase and I decided to create a Minesweeper game that utilized button and switch input from a Basys-3 board as well as VHDL code. A better name for the game could very well be …

Motorized WiFi Controlled Chassis

“Donald Bell of Maker Project Lab (https://makerprojectlab.com) pointed out in his November 29, 2017 update (https://youtu.be/cQzQl97ntpU) that the “Lady Buggy” chassis (https://www.instructables.com/id/Lady-Buggy/) could be used as a generic platform. He …

New technology using magnet to generate electricity from heat

“University of Tokyo researchers and their collaborators at RIKEN observed an unexpectedly large thermomagnetic effect, called the anomalous Nernst effect, in an antiferromagnet, a type of magnetic material, for the first time. The study’s findings, demonstrating a new method …

Rules for superconductivity mirrored in ‘excitonic insulator’

“Device’s braided qubits could form component of topological quantum computer Rice University physicists dedicated to creating the working components of a fault-tolerant quantum computer have succeeded in creating a previously unseen state of matter. The “topological excitonic insulator” was …

SEER- InternetOfThings Based Intelligent Personal Assistant

“Seer is a device which will play a booster role in the field of smart homes and automation.It is basically an application of internet of things. SEER is a 9-inch hands-free wireless speaker made up of Raspberry Pi 3 …

The Biggest Little Chip: An Intro to the Versatile 555 Timer

“Back in 1970, when barely half a dozen corporate seedlings had taken root in the fertile ground of Silicon Valley, a company named Signetics bought an idea from an engineer named Hans Camenzind. It wasn’t a breakthrough concept, just …

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation Launches World’s First 14TB HDD with Conventional Magnetic Recording

“The 14TB models use an innovative 9-disk, helium-sealed design to deliver massive capacity that fits into standard 3.5 inch SATA drive bays. -Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation today announced the launch of the MG07ACA Series, the world’s first …