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Components with responsibility

“Industrial manufacturing usually follows rigidly programmed processes, in which individual work steps and machines are tightly scheduled. This makes production inflexible and causes problems if devices fail or unscheduled com- ponents need to be processed at short notice. At the …

Controlling a Stepper Motor with an SIRC TV Remote and a PICAXE: Infrared Capabilities

“This is part one of a two-part project. For part one, we will focus on IR remotes and signaling, as well as IR reception and decoding. Using IR (InfraRed) radiation to control electronic devices is widely accepted and implemented. IR …

DIY: Arduino based continuous touch Piano

“In this instructable, working and making of Arduino based piano is explained. This piano is able to play any frequency in-between two keys. Making of this would require basic knowledge of Arduino for debugging. Have a view of video for …

Intel Introduces Versatile New FPGA for Industrial and Automotive Markets

“To serve the growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Cyclone® 10 family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Designed to deliver fast and power-efficient processing, they have a variety of uses, including …

Lasers Could Give Space Research its ‘Broadband’ Moment

“Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day. The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. You’re lucky if a spacecraft can send more than a few megabits per second …

Long-lasting flow battery could run for more than a decade with minimum upkeep

“Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new flow battery that stores energy in organic molecules dissolved in neutral pH water. This new chemistry allows for a non-toxic, non-corrosive battery …

NASA Receives Science Report on Europa Lander Concept

“In early 2016, in response to a congressional directive, NASA’s Planetary Science Division began a pre-Phase A study to assess the science value and engineering design of a future Europa lander mission. NASA routinely conducts such studies — known as …

Neural network trained to solve quantum mechanical problems

“It’s notoriously difficult to make sense of Quantum mechanics, and it’s equally difficult to calculate the behavior of many quantum systems. That’s due in part to the description of a quantum system called its wavefunction. The wavefunction …

Newly engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption

“A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial — an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to …

Oui OUI, Spiffy SPIFFS on ESP8266

“Oui OUI (Yes OUI) on an ESP8266 with the entire Organizationally Unique Identifier database stored in SPIFFS - spiffy, ugh? If you would like to know more about the OUI, check out Wikipedia. This is a proof-of-concept only and other than …