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Scalable clusters make HPC R&D easy as Raspberry Pi

“System with thousands of nodes brings affordable testbed to supercomputing system-software developers LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Nov. 13, 2017—A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has …

Simple is Beautiful in Quantum Computing

“Defect spins in diamond were controlled with a simpler, geometric method, leading to faster computing. Quantum computing could solve problems impossible for today’s supercomputers. The challenge for this new form of computing is processing the quantum bits (qubits) that …

Solar Soil Moisture Meter With ESP8266

“In this Instructable, we’re making a solar powered soil moisture monitor. It uses an ESP8266 wifi microcontroller running low power code, and everythings waterproof so it can be left outside. You can follow this recipe exactly, or take from …

Speedy Collision Detector Could Make Robots Better Human Assistants

“Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a faster collision detection algorithm that uses machine learning to help robots avoid moving objects and weave through complex, rapidly changing environments in real time. The algorithm, dubbed “Fastron …

Sunflower - Arduino Solar Tracker

“‘The Sunflower’ is an Arduino based solar tracker which will increase the efficiency of the solar panel while charging.In modern solar tracking systems, the solar panels are fixed on a structure that moves according to the position of the …

Supercomputing Speeds Up Deep Learning Training

“A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Davis and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) published the results of an effort to harness the power of supercomputers to train a deep neural network …

Three-Dimensional Nanomagnets for the computer of tomorrow

“Since the late 60´s electronic devices have stored and transmitted information (bits) in two-dimensional circuits. Now, researchers at the University of Cambridge have been able to break this barrier by creating a nanoscale magnetic circuit capable of moving information …

An acoustic cage for electrons

“The ability to trap and control electrons and other quasi-particles for the study of isolated single particles as well as many-body systems in a solid-state environment can be of major importance for understanding the behaviour of correlated electrons in technologically …

Arduino Voice Recognition Remote Control Car/Spider Robot/BB8… Nearly Everything

“I wanted to control my RC 360 Degree Stunt Car (which is also the motor unit I’ve built for my RC Lego BB8), sing my voice, but keeping the functionality of the original Remote Control, so, here it is …

ATtiny85 And Shift Registers

“I decided I wanted to play with shift registers, and the classic circuit for that is running a bunch more LED’s from a chip than the chip has pins, so I decided on an 8 pin ATtiny85 running 16 …