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A robot that senses hidden objects

“System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view. In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. “Researchers have been giving robots human-like perception,” says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib …

A Skoltech method helps model the behavior of 2D materials under pressure

“Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST) have developed a method for modelling the behavior of 2D materials under pressure. The research will help create pressure sensors based on silicene or other 2D materials. The paper …

A streamlined approach to determining thermal properties of crystalline solids and alloys

“MIT research team finds machine learning techniques offer big advantages over standard experimental and theoretical approaches. In a September 2020 essay in Nature Energy, three scientists posed several “grand challenges” — one of which was to find suitable materials for thermal …

A Tiny Logic Probe TTL / CMOS with Battery Charger

“Using an ATtiny1614 processor with LiPo battery, including USB charging circuitry and logic. It is programmable with Arduino IDE! I would introduce to you this Logic Probe, a complete instrument. It is simple but effective to measure digital logic levels …

Adjustable Super Clamp

“This is an offshoot of my beefy 30mm glass clamp: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3072415 I will be playing with the OpenSCAD file over here in an attempt to make it even more customizable! I tried to break the …

Animated LED Clock

“Bored with Pandemic lockdown like the rest of us I started playing around with Arduino and LED strips. I soon ran into the “ping pong ball LED clock” by thomasj152 at https://www.instructables.com/Ping-Pong-Ball-LED-C… and decided …

Arm’s solution to the future needs of AI, security and specialized computing is v9

“Today, Arm introduced the Arm®v9 architecture in response to the global demand for ubiquitous specialized processing with increasingly capable security and artificial intelligence (AI). Armv9 is the first new Arm architecture in a decade, building on the success of …

Army moves Microsoft HoloLens-based headset from prototyping to production phase

“Earlier today, the United States Army announced that it will work with Microsoft on the production phase of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program as it moves from rapid prototyping to production and rapid fielding. The IVAS headset, based …

Attiny LED Letter Keychain

“Hello everyone! Today I am going to show you how to make a very cool LED keychain. To do this, we are going to use an ATtiny to make the LEDs blink and fade. This is going to help us …

Automated Overhead Camera Assistant for Instructional Videos

“Have you ever wished you had an extra pair of hands in the workshop to handle the camera, while you were concentrating on your project ? This build tries to help with this, by providing an automated camera assistant, that can …