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Work Progresses Toward Ingenuity’s First Flight on Mars

“The Ingenuity team has identified a software solution for the command sequence issue identified on Sol 49 (April 9) during a planned high-speed spin-up test of the helicopter’s rotors. Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential …

1.2V to 50V @ 3A – Adjustable Power Supply with 55Vdc Input

“The project presented here is a wide input voltage range non-isolated DC-DC Converter, that provides a regulated, adjustable output voltage. The operating input supply is 55V DC and output regulated from 1.2V to 50V DC. The project built …

2,400 LED Icosahedron (20 Sided)

“The major challenge of making a smaller LED cube in my opinion is the LED panels. Commercially available panels are designed for video walls and typically made at 64x64 pixel as a minimum size. This seems to be a good …

3W Stereo Differential Input CLASS-D Audio Amplifier with UP/DOWN Volume

“The circuit presented here is a 3W stereo audio amplifier with memory UP/DOWN volume control. The project is based on PAM8408 IC from Diode Incorp which is a filter-less class-D amplifier with high SNR and Differential input which helps …

4x4x4 Led Cube Making

“What we are going to do here today is how to make a cool LED cube at low cost A LED cube allows us to create images and patterns by using the concept of an optical phenomenon known as persistence …

555 Fizzle Loop Synth V4

“I’ve hit a pretty significant milestone with this Instructable - my 200th! It’s been a busy 9 years, building and learning a lot of new skills whist producing these 200 ‘ibles - and it’s been a blast. Thanks to …

A New Material Enables the Usage of “Calcium” for Batteries

“Scientists from Tohoku University have developed a new fluorine-free calcium (Ca) electrolyte based on a hydrogen (monocarborane) cluster that could potentially realize rechargeable Ca batteries. The researchers say the new material, achieved by designing the coordination structure of Ca cation …

A new state of light

“Physicists at the University of Bonn observe new phase in Bose-Einstein condensate of light particles A single “super photon” made up of many thousands of individual light particles: About ten years ago, researchers at the University of Bonn produced such …

A Spigot That Streams Digits of Pi

“There are several methods for calculating the value of Pi. One approach that was devised by mathematicians (Gibbons, Rabinowitz, and Wagon) generates the digits iteratively one after the other using what is called a spigot algorithm. There are a number …

A Swiss Army Knife for Genomic Data

“A good way to find out what a cell is doing—whether it is growing out of control as in cancers, or is under the control of an invading virus, or is simply going about the routine business of a …