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Researchers printed graphene-like materials with inkjet

“New black phosphorous inks are compatible with conventional inkjet printing techniques for optoelectronics and photonics. Since the discovery of the Nobel Prize winning material graphene, many new nanomaterials promise to deliver exciting new photonic and optoelectronic technologies. Black phosphorous is …

There’s not enough sign language translators, so these students 3D printed a humanoid robot

“A team of engineering students from the University of Antwerp are building a humanoid robot that will have the ability to translate speech into sign language. Sponsored by the European Institute for Otorhinolaryngology, the robot titled Project Aslan aims to …

3D Printed Animatronic Puppet

“Meet Baby Bastion, the Overwatch inspired animatronic puppet! There’s a huge variety of DIY robot projects on the internet, but a lot of them lack a means to express emotion. This instructable has lots of useful mechanisms that will …

Ariadne-IO - Building a Smart Sailboat

“A wireless hardware and software IoT project that monitors multiple streams of data from a sailboat. Access realtime information on any web enabled device. Built with React, Node.js, MongoDB, and Express. Making a 30’ sailboat a little smarter using …

ATtiny85 and supercapacitor

“I tested a small 1.5 F capacitor together with ATtiny85 microcontroller. It is manufactured by Panasonic and operates at a maximum voltage of 5.5 V. The capacitor is designed for back-up of low-energy devices. I used the ATtiny85 …

Build a Raspberry Pi Scanner that Tracks the Devices Connected to Your Local Network

“We’re going to make use of a Raspberry Pi to build a network scanner to keep track of the hosts connecting to our local network. It’s actually pretty easy to do. And as we’re going to make …

Candy cane supercapacitor could enable fast charging of mobile phones

“Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the University of Cambridge have found a way to improve all three problems in one stroke. Their prototyped polymer electrode, which resembles a candy cane usually hung on a Christmas tree …

Customizable Parametric Simple Bitholder v2

“Inspired by Bit holder by mattbeechan.Unfortunately v1 had some major issues (I did not properly test :S ). The v2 was tested more thoroughly and I added a few nice features (such as the tightness control and the added magnet …

E-Paper Weather Display With Photon and IFTTT

“If you have an E-Reader such as a Barnes & Noble NOOK or an Amazon Kindle then you’re already familiar with e-paper. The e-paper display on your e-reader is what allows you to read it in direct sunlight without any …

ESP32/ESP8266 Weather Forecaster/Predictor

“Using an ESP32 or ESP8266 we can forecast weather by reading air pressure from a sensor such as the BOSCH BMP085/180 or BME280. Then by monitoring the changes in air pressure and categorising the changes thus: Rising quickly, Rising …