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Yandex’s on-demand taxi service debuts its self-driving car project

“Russia search and internet technology giant Yandex is showing off the self-driving vehicle prototype developed by its Yandex.Taxi on-demand ride service for the first time, and the video above is the first footage of the car in action. The …

A glove powered by soft robotics to interact with virtual reality environments

“Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to feel tactile feedback when they interact with virtual reality environments. The researchers used the gloves to realistically simulate the tactile feeling …

A New Spin on Electronics

“A University of Utah-led team has discovered that a class of “miracle materials” called organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites could be a game changer for future spintronic devices. Spintronics uses the direction of the electron spin — either up or down — to carry …

Brewery Project With an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi

“Hello everyone, welcome to our pico-brewery project. Through this tutorial we will explain you how to proceed to realize your installation. As you can imagine, we obviously love to drink beers so to have a brewery it’s an old …

How to build your own Google AIY without the Kit

“Google’s voice assistant has been around for a while now and when Amazon released its Alexa API and ported the PaaS Cloud code to the Raspberry Pi 2 it was just a matter of time before everyone else jumped …

New Method of Characterizing Graphene

“Scientists have developed a new method of characterizing graphene’s properties without applying disruptive electrical contacts, allowing them to investigate both the resistance and quantum capacitance of graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Researchers from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the …

After beating the world’s elite Go players, Google’s AlphaGo AI is retiring

“Google’s AlphaGo — the AI developed to tackle the world’s most demanding strategy game — is stepping down from competitive matches after defeating the world’s best talent. The latest to succumb is Go’s top-ranked player, Ke Jie, who …

Arduino Fingerprint Sensor Tutorial

“Dear friends welcome to another tutorial! Today we are going to build an interesting Arduino project which is using a fingerprint sensor module. Without any further delay, let’s get started! I always wanted to try a fingerprint sensor module …

Arduino to Control Home Appliance Using Web App

“In this project we are going to light the bulb from remote location using web services. In this we are going to use one Arduino interfacing with 12 bulb using 3 relay module with low level trigger. We can trigger …

Artnet LED Pixels With ESP8266

“After the success of my last Instructable, ESP8266 Artnet to DMX, I have completely revamped my espArtNetNode code, releasing v2 with new features such as RDM support and WS2812 output. This code is still in beta and there are a …