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Supermoon! Red blood lunar eclipse! It’s all happening at once, but what does that mean?

“The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during the early hours of May 26. But this is going to be an especially super lunar event, as it will be a supermoon, a lunar eclipse, and a red …

Surviving an In-Flight Anomaly: What Happened on Ingenuity’s Sixth Flight

“On the 91st Martian day, or sol, of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its sixth flight. The flight was designed to expand the flight envelope and demonstrate aerial-imaging capabilities by taking stereo images …

The future of the IoT (batteries not required)

“Benton Calhoun SM ‘02 PhD ‘06 and David Wentzloff SM ‘02 PhD ‘07 are co-founders of Everactive, which uses wireless sensing to provide continuous remote monitoring for the industrial internet of things. When Ben Calhoun and Dave Wentzloff co-founded Everactive …

The MagPi 106

“Inside The MagPi magazine #106 Big Builds. Sometimes you feel the need to make something a little bigger. Whether it’s an arcade or pinball machine, photo booth, guitar or magic mirror. These are the builds that make a big …

The Nyctograph Machine

“A small printer for the peculiar alphabet invented to write in the dark by Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Maybe you know Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Or maybe do you remember at …

TL494 Working With a Crystal || Generate Perfect 50Hz Modified Square Waves

“Hello everyone! Thank you for stopping by this instructable. This is a very exciting project where I have made this TL494 based modified square wave module that is controlled by a crystal oscillator for having super accurate output frequency of …

To make particles flow more efficiently, put an obstacle in their way

“Microfluidic chips speed up biological and chemical experiments. Researchers made them more efficient by using cleverly designed ‘traffic circles’ to direct the flow of fluids. Scientists used to perform experiments by stirring biological and chemical agents into test tubes. Nowadays …

Toshiba Releases Photovoltaic-output Photocoupler for Isolated Solid State Relays

“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has launched “TLP3910,” a photovoltaic-output photocoupler (“photovoltaic coupler”) housed in a thin SO6L package, suitable for driving the gates of high-voltage power MOSFETs used as isolated solid state relay (SSR) function. Volume production shipments …

Trammel of Archimedes Via 4 Machines

“If you have never heard of a trammel of Archimedes they were originally used for drawing ellipses. The original models had only two slides and could be adjusted to change the shape of the drawn ellipse. I find them to …

Trinamic’s Open-Source Reference Design Shrinks and Speeds Development of End-of-Arm Tooling

“Integrated hardware-based field-oriented control and IO-Link communication reduce electronic robotic gripper design size by three times, while cutting development time in half TRINAMIC Motion Control GmbH & Co. KG, now part of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM), introduces an …