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“Imagine revolutionizing the renewable energy market with the silica gel packets you find in shoeboxes and snack bags. The research team behind Membrion is working to do just that. Developed by chemical engineering researchers Greg Newbloom (PhD ‘14) and Weyerhaeuser …
“Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots to protect and serve humans, while keeping themselves safe. Robots are becoming more common in our homes and workplaces and this looks …
“Transistor are electrical components that are direct electronic signals and enable us to process information. Millions of them are built into every single computer chip, and they are usually made out of the semiconductor material silicon. Dr. Christian Klinke’s …
“Design your home monitoring system with LattePanda (with Windows 10 Home x64 OS), CC2530 ZigBee devices, and Microsoft Azure services. LattePanda is a powerful development board that can run a full version of Windows 10. It is equipped with an …
“My grandfather Leo was a self-taught electrical engineer and IEEE member who designed control systems for tire factories. He was also an avid photographer, and his eight children—and later, his grandchildren—were among his favorite subjects, right up to …
“IBM claims that its new processor can encrypt data on a massive scale, concealing credit card payments, travel site bookings, and government payrolls from the prying eyes of hackers. On Monday, IBM announced that the new silicon powers its latest …
“The phone will ring if you have an alert in your AWS Cloudwatch. If you pick up the handset, it tells you whats wrong. For this project I hacked an old rotary phone, so it will tell me if a …
“Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of life, they bring out a small, air-tight cylinder. They place the device at …
“This is an Arduino camera module, using the Surveillance camera’s digital image processing chip-OV0706. The OV7670 image sensor is a small size, low voltage, single-chip VGA camera and CMOS image processor for all functions. It provides full-frame, sub-sampled …
“ZeroBot is a Raspberry Pi Zero W based robot. It can be controlled using any computer or smartphone via a web browser. The integrated camera module makes for a low latency video stream. In addition the Raspberry Pi acts as …