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Engineers design “tree-on-a-chip”

“Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature’s hydraulic pumps. They are constantly pulling water up from their roots to the topmost leaves, and pumping sugars produced by their leaves back down to the roots …

Homemade Chess Robot

“In this Instructable, I show you how to build a chess robot! The chess robot was designed in 3 parts: the mechanical design, the electrical circuitry, and the Python/Arduino code. Each step can be completed individually and in any …

Interface Force Sensitive Resistor to Fade an LED Using NodeMCU

“I’m back with another cool Instructable. This Instructable is part of a series of Instructables with the NodeMCU, my previous Instructables shows you how to get started with the NodeMCU, and lots more. So make sure, you check that …

Keeping the heat out

“Most electronic devices currently contain silicon-based chips. Other semiconducting materials show potential, but need further research to become commercially viable. Researchers at KAUST have thoroughly analyzed one such material—metal-nitride nanowires—bringing them a step closer to being useful. When …

LDR light following robot

“A photoresistor is a light-controlled variable resistor.The resistance of a photoresistor decreases with increasing incident light intensity; in other words, it exhibits photoconductivity. A photoresistor can be applied in light-sensitive detector circuits, and light- and dark-activated switching circuits.This …

Linux Kernel 4.12 Released — These Are The 5 Biggest Features

“After the usual development process involving seven release candidates, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 4.12. Regarding commits, probably, it’s the second biggest kernel release. The most significant feature of kernel 4.12 is the support for new …

My MeArm Picking Up Things

“This Project is really special. I bought a MeArm (a popular, easy-to-find, inexpensive and easy-to-assembly Robotic Arm) . After putting everything together, I started with some typical stuff such as making it work with potentiometers in order to pick up some …

Salto-1P Is the Most Amazing Jumping Robot We’ve Ever Seen

“Salto-1P uses a small motor and a system of linkages and gears to jump. Because it spends so little time in contact with the ground, the robot needs to do most of its control in the air. To do that …

SpaceX’s first re-flown Dragon capsule successfully returns to Earth

“SpaceX has another historic achievement under its belt — being first to re-fly a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station and back. The Dragon capsule it used on its most recent ISS resupply mission was used during a previous trip …

Ultrasonic Garage Parking Assistant With Arduino and an ATtiny85

“Hello fellow makers, I want to share with you a simple project that I have put together. I am new to prototyping/circuits and only took two semester of Java courses, so when I went looking for simple projects to …