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‘World’s first’ MIDI over Bluetooth LE wireless adaptor allows user to play any MIDI instruments without the need for cables

“QUICCO SOUND’s mi.1 Cable and mi.1 II employ Nordic nRF52832 SoC-based Insight SiP module for MIDI over Bluetooth LE connectivity between instruments, equipment and apps Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Hamamatsu, Japan-based QUICCO SOUND, has selected an …

YouTube Subscriber Counter Using an E-Paper Display and Raspberry Pi Zero W

“In this Instructable, I’ll show you how to build your own Youtube Subscriber Counter using an e-paper display, and a Raspberry Pi Zero W to query the YouTube API and update the display. E-paper displays are great for this …

Zeptoseconds: New world record in short time measurement

“In the global race to measure ever shorter time spans, physicists from Goethe University Frankfurt have now taken the lead: together with colleagues at the accelerator facility DESY in Hamburg and the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin, they have measured a process …

8 Channel Infra-Red Remote-Control Arduino Shield Using ULN2803

“This is an 8 channel infra-red remote-control Arduino shield that can drive 8 high current loads such as LEDs, solenoids, multiple toy DC Motors, dual unipolar stepper motor, filament lamps, etc. Each channel consists of two parallel NPN transistors with …

A milestone in quantum physics: Physicists at Mainz University successfully carry out the controlled transport of stored light

“Patrick Windpassinger and his team demonstrate how light stored in a cloud of ultra-cold atoms can be transported by means of an optical conveyor belt A team of physicists led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU …

A new approach boosts lithium-ion battery efficiency and puts out fires, too

“Adding polymers and fireproofing to a battery’s current collectors makes it lighter, safer and about 20% more efficient. Menlo Park, Calif. — In an entirely new approach to making lithium-ion batteries lighter, safer and more efficient, scientists at Stanford University …

An Electrical Trigger Fires Single, Identical Photons

“The precisely controlled photon source, made from an atomically thin semiconducting material, could aid the development of advanced quantum communication Secure telecommunications networks and rapid information processing make much of modern life possible. To provide more secure, faster, and higher-performance …

Arduino Interactive LED Coffee Table

“I made an interactive coffee table that turns led lights on under an object, when the object is placed over the table. Only the leds that are under that object will light up. It does this by effectively using proximity …

Arduino RFID Database Security System with ESP8266 ESP-01

“In this article we are going to discuss the designing process of our Arduino Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Database Security System Project. This will walk you through the way I design my own RFID Project that connects to the database …

ATtiny85 Mario Challenge!

“The ATtiny85 microcontroller is a capable but compact AVR. However with only 8K of program memory, 512 bytes of EEPROM, 512 of SRAM and only 8 pins (3 of which are dedicated to the usual suspects of Vcc, GND and …