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ISS Tracker Using a Raspberry Pico

“This Pico-based International Space Station (ISS) Tracker project will cost around 25 ($30) - most of which is the cost of the display I used. It can be adapted to use any Pico-compatible display you may have, or even to send …

ITMO Students Make a Battery That Can Be Wirelessly Recharged up to 500 Times

“In spite of their many disadvantages, batteries remain one of the key components in contemporary electronics. While changing their structure entirely is impossible due to the chemical and physical processes happening inside, scientists, startups, and major companies are searching for …

Legged robots need more testing before real-world use

“When it comes to the evolution of mobile robots, it may be a long time before legged robots are able to safely interact in the real world, according to a new study. Led by a team of researchers at The …

Lily∞Bot Version 2: Open Source Robot for Academics

“This is version 2 of the open-source robot for academics to engage in service, teaching, and research. Meet Lily∞Bot. Story I am an open-source hardware trailblazer and this is part of my guidebook to show academics how to engage …

Make Your Doorbell Smart With an ESP8266

“Hello and welcome to this guide! Today let’s see how we can turn an ordinary front door bell into a smart doorbell, so a doorbell that’s connected to our smart home ans so to our smartphone. This idea …

Microsoft, university researchers use AI to aid in study of ancient script on China’s “oracle bones”

“Since farmers began digging up ancient bone fragments in the fields around the Yellow River in eastern China over 100 years ago, researchers have been poring over the mysterious script found on them. The script on the “oracle bones,” so …

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot

“Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future. Less than six weeks after it began, construction of the first sample depot on …

New Carbon Nanotube Yarn Harvests Mechanical Energy

“Nanotechnology researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have made novel carbon nanotube yarns that convert mechanical movement into electricity more effectively than other material-based energy harvesters. In a study published Jan. 26 in Nature Energy, UT Dallas researchers …

New form of ice is like a snapshot of liquid water

“A collaboration between scientists at Cambridge and UCL has led to the discovery of a new form of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other and may hold the key to understanding this most famous of liquids …

Nordic Semiconductor announces availability of the nRF7002 companion IC and nRF7002 Development Kit, enabling developers to easily create innovative, low power Wi-Fi 6 IoT applications

“The nRF7002 complements Nordic’s cellular IoT and multiprotocol wireless solutions. By using the new IC, developers can leverage Wi-Fi 6’s higher throughput and ubiquitous domestic and industrial infrastructure when developing IoT applications. Design support through Nordic’s unified …