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Folding Clock

“An interesting 3D printed clock that folds out flat or back on top of itself. Recently I build a Cube clock that showed the time in the same orientation no matter what orientation the clock itself was in. This was …

Homemade Successive Approximation Register ADC

“This is a homemade 7-bit SAR ADC using discrete components for principle study. The following is an introduction to a Successive Approximation Register Analog to Digital Converter (SAR ADC) that I made myself for principle study, and observing the conversion …

How to Make a News Station Inside a Retro Mini TV

“One of history’s greatest inventions is the television however, with each passing decade the television loses some of its original flare. I want to bring some of that classic charm back to life in this build. Last year I …

How to make a Perfect Home Automation System

“For a Perfect Home Automation, I selected these points - Compact - IoT Enabled - Works without internet - Features - Easy to Install - Long Life For making a system like this I break this operation into 3 parts - Hardware Phase - Software Phase - Installation Phase …

Industry’s most accurate 3D Hall-effect position sensor provides speed and precision for faster real-time control

“TI sensor provides ultra-high precision at speeds as fast as 20 kSPS while using at least 70% less power Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today introduced the industry’s most accurate 3D Hall-effect position sensor. With the TMAG5170, engineers can …

ITMO Researchers Ramp Up X-Ray Laser Research Into Nano- and Biomaterials

“In 2019, a Russian federal program for the development of synchrotron and neutron-focused research was launched. The program will go on until 2027; in that time, new megascience-class projects, such as X-ray lasers, synchrotrons, and neutron generators, are expected to …

Kinetic Soul: Experience Dance through Touch

“A platform which enables the visually impaired to experience dance via kinetic feedback. Dance is an art we often look at to understand and connect with one another. To the visually impaired, however, connecting with someone’s dance is hard …

LED Matrix Dual Hourglass

“An hourglass sand simulator built with ATmega328 (Arduino), MPU-6050 accelerometer, and four 8x8 red/green LED matrix displays.”

LEONARDO, the Bipedal Robot, Can Ride a Skateboard and Walk a Slackline

“LEO carves out a new type of locomotion somewhere between walking and flying Researchers at Caltech have built a bipedal robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally nimble and capable of …

Longstanding magnetic materials classification problem solved

“New classifications have implications for quantum applications Humans have been aware of the strange phenomenon of magnetism for over 2,000 years. From ancient Greece through modern times, researchers have steadily improved upon humanity’s fundamental understanding of magnets. For …