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Virgin Galactic Welcomes SpaceShipTwo Unity to Spaceport America, New Mexico

“Virgin Galactic has successfully completed another vital step on its path to commercial service, relocating SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, to its commercial headquarters at Spaceport America’s Gateway to Space building. VSS Unity, attached to the carrier aircraft, VMS Eve, made …

Vortex Watch

“An infinity mirror watch. This watch is a collaboration between myself and Jamal Davis. Our goal was to create a wearable-sized version of the infinity mirror clock projects we had seen around web. The end product is a 3d printed …

Waiter Robot for Restaurants

“With an ordering system and a database, the robot is designed to automatically deliver dishs to their corresponding tables. In today’s modern society automation has become an integral part of our daily life. We are increasingly noticing that more …

What’s up with that rock? China’s moon rover finds something strange on the far side

“China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover has discovered what appear to be relatively young rocks during its recent exploration activities on the lunar far side. The Chang’e-4 mission’s rover imaged the scattered, apparently lighter-colored rocks during lunar day 13 …

wood lathe digital readout

“I bought a wood lathe a few months ago and I thought it would be fun to make my own digital readout. A digital readout is simply an electronic display that shows you the spindle speed of a lathe. I …

0 to 5V output Analog Hall Sensor for Foot Controller

“This project includes an analog Hall Effect sensor and an Op-Amp circuit which can be used as position or angular sensing with the benefits of no contact and wearing, high stability and wide sensing range. Two configurations of the magnet …

2-Stroke Engine

“See how a 2-stroke engine works by using NeoPixels. Made a 3-cylinder, 2-stroke engine to show my students how the three different types of fuel induction happens inside the 2 strokes. I used NeoPixels and an absolute rotary encoder to …

5km FM Transmitter

“This is a good quality FM transmitter with 5km range and stable frequency brought by the modified oscillator, which is actually two oscillators built around Q2 and Q3 working at around 50MHz in anti-phase. The output is taken at the …

A new Raspbian update

“The last major release of Raspbian was the Buster version we launched alongside Raspberry Pi 4 last year. There was a minor release a couple of months later, which was mostly just bug-fixes for the first release (hence no blog …

A novel formulation to explain heat propagation

“Researchers at EPFL and MARVEL have developed a novel formulation that describes how heat spreads within crystalline materials. This can explain why and under which conditions heat propagation becomes fluid-like rather than diffusive. Their equations will make it easier to …