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Divide and conquer pattern searching

“Searching for recurring patterns in network systems has become a fundamental part of research and discovery in fields as diverse as biology and social media. KAUST researchers have developed a pattern or graph-mining framework that promises to significantly speed up …

DIY Bench Power Supply (Single Channel)

“Every engineer needs at least one bench power supply in his house. I agree one can get the power supply directly from the store, but they are costly and some are ugly in terms of design too. We all need …

Garage Parking Stop Light

“I’ve seen several of these both online for sale and other implementations, and so I thought I’d give it a try. I had all the parts for this project laying around except for the Novelty Stop Light, so …

Gestured Controlled Smart Home

“Home Automation is the biggest domestic technological improvement of this generation, toe to toe with drones. It can provide full control of every piece of hardware in a house, if done well: from light control to preparing coffee at a …

Project  PiFold

PiFold

“PiFold-A handy PiZero based server that fits in a wallet. Battery, charge circuit and wifi included. Currently using Anyfesto, a variant of PirateBox, to serve up ebooks and files via a web interface plus audio streaming via VLC. Secure VOIP …

Why connecting all the world’s robots will drive 2017’s top technology trends

“If you want to make predictions for the future, you need to find the trajectory of events in the past. So to work out what shape digital technology will likely take next year, we should look back to the major …

2017 New Years Shutter Shades

“Shutter shades to ring in the new year with! Customizer wouldn’t work for this, so I just edited the SCAD code from drjames. I printed in ABS with 20% infill. Prints pretty quick (< 2 hrs). Warping wasn’t a …

A Leap Second Will Be Added December 31, 2016

“Because Earth is slowing down, we will synchronize our clocks by adding a leap second just before we enter 2017. Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve 2016 UTC time, a leap second will be added to Coordinated Universal …

Arduino Controlled Artificial Candle Lights

“A while ago I started working on a project to subtly light up our atrium room which gets a bit too gloomy during the autumn and winter time. I wanted something more natural looking than hard LED lights, preferably the …

Arduino Propeller Message Display (POV)

“In this project I want to show you the Persistence Of Vision (POV) to generating a rotating message in the air using only 10 LEDs. It is also called “POV stick”. The apparatus consists of flashing and rotating 8 LEDs …