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Carbon nanotubes turn electrical current into light-matter quasi-particles

“Material scientists and physicists from Heidelberg University (Germany) and the University of St Andrews (Scotland) have demonstrated electrical generation of hybrid light-matter particles, so-called exciton-polaritons, by using field-effect transistors with semiconducting carbon nanotubes integrated in optical microcavities. The extraordinary stability …

In quest to reach Alpha Centauri, breakthrough starshot launches world’s smallest spacecraft

“Breakthrough Starshot, a multi-faceted program to develop and launch practical interstellar space missions, successfully flew its first spacecraft – the smallest ever launched. On June 23, a number of prototype “Sprites” – the world’s smallest fully functional space probes, built on …

New robot printer spits out recyclable robots

“Building a robot takes a long time and when the robot is finally finished, it can usually only be used for one single purpose. Inconvenient in situations where time is scarce and tasks may not be known in advance. In …

NXP and Amazon Web Services Launch Cooperation in IoT

“NXP Semiconductors N.V.(NASDAQ:NXPI) today announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to successfully complete the integration of Amazon Greengrass on its Layerscape Intelligent Gateway platform. Amazon Greengrass is a software that extends AWS Cloud capabilities …

Portable WiFi Analyzer

“This instructables shows how to use a Tic Tac sweet box make a portable WiFi Analyzer.You may find more background in my previous instructables. WiFi Analyzer is very useful in some situations: WiFi everywhere now and 2.4 GHz …

Simple RC Mecanum Wheels Robot Wif Arduino

“”The Mecanum wheel is a design for a wheel which can move a vehicle in any direction.”This robot/car is just a hand large and is quite simple to build (except the wheels) :)This RC mecanum wheels robot consist …

EBooks  The MagPI 60

The MagPI 60

“Your essential guide to solving Raspberry Pi problems. We wanted the perfect Pi troubleshooting guide for our own workshop, and we thought you might like a copy in yours. lus! All this inside issue 60: Get creative with your Raspberry …

Arduino Keyboard Piano With 8 Bit R2R DAC

“I used an Arduino to generate sin waves of the appropriate frequency which are then triggered by the keypad.This project uses an external speaker to play the tones. The arduino sends audio data via AUX cable.Features-Plays the basic …

Easy DIY Arduino Touch Sensor Piano

“This mini piano requires no soldering and is very easy to make.It’s a great starter project to get into Arduinos. I had tons of fun making it and playing it once finished!This project can be completed by …

How to Make an Iron Man Arc Reactor

“Iron Man Arc Reactor This instructable is one of two parts detailing how to build an arc reactor and an iron man mask. Both work together but are written as seperate instructables for clarity. This part is for the Arc …