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STMicroelectronics Powers Creative NFC Applications with Dynamic Message Content and Anti-Tamper in New Type-5 Tags

“Uniquely combining NFC Type-5 properties with augmented NDEF (NFC Data Exchange Format) and tamper detection, STMicroelectronics’ ST25TV512C and ST25TV02KC tags let developers leverage NFC contactless communication in new and imaginative ways for applications in consumer engagement, brand recognition, supply-chain management …

Temperature Controlled RGB LED Light Stick – Mood Light

“The circuit presented here is a LED light stick which changes its color in respect with the room temperature. This is an Arduino compatible open source project consisting of 20 x WS2812B Addressable RGB LEDs, LM35 Temperature Sensor and ATmega328 …

The MagPI 102

“Inside The MagPi magazine #102 – Build the ultimate media centre Play games, stream movies, listen to music and more. This Raspberry Pi-based media centre is is an amazing addition to your television. Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller. Discover the story behind …

The Water Watcher

“Monitoring the pilot light on my water heater. This project consists of two parts (or three parts if you count the MQTT server through which they communicate, or four parts if you count the wifi router, or, hey, just stop …

Tic Tac Toe on a Business Card

“A business card that can play the classic game of Tic Tac Toe. With the internship application season in full swing, I decided to make some PCB business cards that I can give away to hopefully stand out from the …

TinyMoisture - Soil Moisture Monitor based on ATtiny13A

“TinyMoisture monitors the soil moisture of your plants and gives an alarm if you forget to water them again. TinyMoisture uses the resistance measurement method to determine the soil moisture. The two probes together with the substrate form a variable …

Project  Toy Organ

Toy Organ

“I was scrolling through AliExpress and found a number toy piano kits that used a 555 IC and a series of resistors. It was a stay-at-home-because-of-COVID weekend, and, having all the parts at home, I decided to try to …

Weather and news station (e-paper and Raspberry Pi)

“Fed up of ugly weather station ? Build your own providing current weather and forecast but also air pollution tracking and top news ! Features This project : Call a weather and news API to get information Parse the incoming JSON to use …

Wind Speed Monitor Via MQTT

“Once I failed to control the drone because of the wind so I want to measure the wind speed to know whether it is suitable for the drone flight in the wild. So I am thinking of how to measure …

Zapping Quantum Materials With Lasers Tells Us How Atoms Relate

“Following is a guest post by Lex Kemper, an associate professor of physics at NC State. He studies quantum materials: solid materials that have nifty physical properties that make them useful in computing or energy applications. Recently, Kemper was co-author …