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Arduino Audio Spectrum Shield WS2812 LED Display

“This is a really simple build made up of essentially 3 components and some fun coding with nested loops to translate audio amplitude data into colorful displays; An Arduino (I used an Uno but any Arduino with at least 2 …

Arduino Based Self Balancing Bot

“Hey everyone what’s up! So here’s my 3D Printed Self-balancing robot which is powered by an Arduino nano board and has an MPU6050 to get the accelerometer and gyro readings to balance itself using the PID function. This …

Arduino Magnetic Field Strength Meter

“Magnetic field is a region around a magnetic material or a moving electric charge within which the force of magnetism acts. Device is extremly simple and consist only few components: - Arduino nano microcontroller - small Oled display - Led and resistor - and …

Bottling the world’s coldest plasma

“Laser-cooled plasma-in-a-bottle could answer questions about the sun, fusion power Rice University physicists have discovered a way to trap the world’s coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean energy, space weather …

Build Your Own Plant Monitor Using Meadow

“Make this plant monitor using a capacitive soil moisture sensor, temperature sensor and display its health on a screen in .NET with Meadow. In this project we’re making a plant monitor to keep a plant nice and healthy using …

Cheap USB to UART Converter Using Microchip MCP2200

“Cheap USB to UART (RS232/Serial) Converter Using Microchip MCP2200 Nowadays USB port is used widely for data transactions between electronic devices and computers. In many scenarios, there is no need to communicate with the USB port directly, therefore electronic …

Chemists at St Petersburg University develop a new technology to prevent lithium-ion batteries from catching fire

“Scientists at St Petersburg University have developed a new technology to prevent lithium-ion batteries from catching fire. What scientists propose is to use a ‘chemical fuse’ to cover the main conductor cable of the battery. It is a special protective …

Chemists boost boron’s utility

“A strategy for preventing boron-containing compounds from breaking down could help medicinal chemists design new drugs. Boron, a metalloid element that sits next to carbon in the periodic table, has many traits that make it potentially useful as a drug …

China’s Huawei, reeling from U.S. sanctions, plans foray into EVs - sources

“China’s Huawei plans to make electric vehicles under its own brand and could launch some models this year, four sources said, as the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, battered by U.S. sanctions, explores a strategic shift. Huawei …

China’s Tianwen-1 zooms in on Mars surface on cusp of new tech era

“China’s Mars orbiter has beamed back high-resolution images, revealing geographic features of the red planet in detail. The photos taken by Tianwen-1 come a week after the United States released a panorama of the Martian surface snapped by the …