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Hydro Dipping 3D Prints

“Add Full color graphics to 3D Printed parts! In this week’s project, we’re hydro dipping 3d printed parts. Hydro dipping also know as Water Drape Film, Water Transfer or Inkjet Water Slide Decal Transfer, is a post-processing technique …

Key Chain USB Power Supply (For Bread Board Projects)

“Hi everyone ,In this instructable, i am gonna share with you how i made these simple key chain USB power supplies that gives separate outputs from 1 to 5 V DC.These can be used for bread board experiments that …

Raspberry Pi Tumblr GIF Photo Booth

“This beginner Raspberry Pi project shows you how to use Python code to turn your Pi camera into a GIF-making, Tumblr-posting photo booth! This project is an except from my free Raspberry Pi Class, so definitely check that out …

Retro Prototyping, Great for Teaching

“Have you ever wondered where the term “Breadboard” came from? Here’s an example of what breadboards were all about. In the early days of electronics, components were large and cumbersome. They didn’t have transistors or integrated circuits, only …

Smart Lamp With ESP8266 & Amazon Echo

“This Instructable guides you along with me in upgrading a vintage lamp with voice-control using an ESP8266 microntroller and Amazon Echo/Alexa. The Arduino code emulates a Belkin WeMo device using the fauxmoESP library, which makes setup a breeze.For …

DIY Bone Conduction Headphones

“I discovered something fascinating while browsing around the other day: headphones that transmit sound directly to your skull. This method of sound transfer has been dubbed bone conduction. All you do is press the little transducers up to your temple …

Linglong Tire partners in China’s first 3D printed tyre project

“Joint developmental work between Shandong Linglong Tire and the Beijing University of Chemical Technology recently bore fruit with the successful production of 3D printed polyurethane tyres. The tyre maker comments that this 3D tyre printing is a first in China …

Miniaturizing the brain of a drone

“In recent years, engineers have worked to shrink drone technology, building flying prototypes that are the size of a bumblebee and loaded with even tinier sensors and cameras. Thus far, they have managed to miniaturize almost every part of a …

New CRISPR technology takes cells to the movies

“Researchers use expensive machinery to develop ways to harness DNA as a synthetic raw material to store large amounts of digital information outside of living cells. But what if they could coerce living cells, such as large populations of bacteria …

New material reduces energy consumption to a minimum

“In order to store information in the conventional magnetic memories of electronic devices, the materials’ small magnetic domains are oriented “up” or “down” by using externally applied magnetic fields. To generate these fields it is necessary to produce electric currents …