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Easy Infinity Mirror With Arduino Gemma & NeoPixels

“Behold! Look deep into the enchanting and deceptively simple infinity mirror! A single strip of LEDs shine inward on a mirror sandwich to create the effect of endless reflection. This project will apply the skills and techniques from my intro …

Elon Musk gives us a glimpse of Tesla’s electric semi truck

“Elon Musk made a few revelations about some his newer projects this week, including the electric semi-truck Tesla has been working on since 2016. The automaker promised to unveil the big rig this September, but the Tesla-slash-SpaceX chief has given …

Flexible, organic and biodegradable: Stanford researchers develop new wave of electronics

“As electronics become increasingly pervasive in our lives – from smart phones to wearable sensors – so too does the ever rising amount of electronic waste they create. A United Nations Environment Program report found that almost 50 million tons of electronic …

Hand that sees offers new hope to amputees

“Led by biomedical engineers at Newcastle University and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the bionic hand is fitted with a camera which instantaneously takes a picture of the object in front of it, assesses its …

Important milestone in quest for hydrogen production using photosynthesis

“Hydrogen gas has long been proposed as a promising energy carrier for future energy applications, but generating the gas from water has proved inefficient. Researchers at Uppsala University have now managed to activate a key enzyme called hydrogenase in E …

Infrared 3D scanner: fast and accurate

“Infrared 3D scanners have been used in video games for quite some time. Whereas in video games the scanners are, for example, only able to identify if a player throws his arms up in the air while playing virtual volleyball …

mbed OS 5.4.4 released

“We are pleased to announce the mbed OS 5.4.4 release is now available. This release includes a reworking of the internal ADC channels code for numerous STM boards, a new callback API for CAN, support for the bootloader …

Murphy develops another marsupial-inspired robot

“Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station’s Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, saw a need for a …

New Russian-Made Polymer Technology Paves Way to 3D-Printed Robots

“Svetlana Kashirova, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University laboratory stated that Russian scientists have invented a new multifunctional polymer material, which will significantly reduce the cost of production, making the new generation of polymers available for widespread use. Russian …

newelectronics 25 Abril 2017

“New Electronics is a fortnightly magazine focusing on technological innovation, news and the latest developments in the electronics sector. Downloadable as a digital page turner or pdf file, or offered as a hard copy, the New Electronics magazine is available …