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Electron Dynamics in Real Time

“Making the dynamics of an excited molecule visible is only possible using computationally intensive simulations. A research team led by Sandra Luber from the University of Zurich has now developed a method that speeds up these complex simulations. Theoretical chemist …

Emo - Your personal companion robot

“A DIY Companion Robot With Raspberry Pi 4 Introducing Emo, the personal companion robot that will capture your heart! With the latest Raspberry Pi 4 technology and open-source design, Emo is the perfect fusion of style and innovation. But he …

Project  ESPClicker

ESPClicker

“ESPClicker is a very simple, ESP8266 based IoT project that will allow you to integrate your normal devices such as a coffee machine, fan, etc, into your Smart home “make them all IoT enabled”. Works with Home Assistant And ESPhome …

Flexing Crystalline Structures Provide Path to a Solid Energy Future

“A team of researchers at Duke University and their collaborators have uncovered the atomic mechanisms that make a class of compounds called argyrodites attractive candidates for both solid-state battery electrolytes and thermoelectric energy converters. The discoveries — and the machine learning …

FPGA RP2040 PIO

“This is an attempt to recreate the Raspberry Pi RP2040 PIO interface in Verilog. PIO stands for Progammable I/O, and it is a peripheral that is part of the RP2040 SoC, which is much more flexible than hardware implementations …

Galagino - ESP32 Arcade

“Galaga, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong are three of the most iconic arcade machines. Galagino brings them onto the ESP32 in perfect emulation. Recently while on the GitHub website, I came across a miniature playable laser cut arcade emulator called Galagino …

Helping robots handle fluids

“Researchers create a new simulation tool for robots to manipulate complex fluids in a step toward helping them more effortlessly assist with daily tasks. Imagine you’re enjoying a picnic by a riverbank on a windy day. A gust of …

High-quality 2D films could be one-drop away

“A research group led by Professor Minoru Osada (he, him) and postdoctoral researcher Yue Shi (she, her) at the Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS), Nagoya University in Japan, has developed a new technology to fabricate nanosheets, thin …

How I Built A Guitar Picking Robot

“The idea came to me while I was listening to a great Seattle fingerpicking guitarist, the late Klaus Lendzian, at a favorite local restaurant. I’d been hearing him play at various venues around town since the 1980s. As I …

How to Make a Voltaic Pile - the World’s First Battery

“Background The Voltaic Pile was the world’s first electrical battery that could sustain electrical current to a circuit. Its creation was first published by Alessandro Volta in 1799, although it could have been made as early as several years …