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Enlightened route to wireless communications

“Smart windows that can polarize sunlight could offer a low energy alternative to Wi-Fi. Sunshine streaming through a window could be directly harnessed for wireless data transmission to electronic devices. KAUST researchers have designed a smart glass system that can …

Entering a New Phase: NIST Technique Simultaneously Locates Multiple Defects on Microchip Circuits

“Defective computer chips are the bane of the semiconductor industry. Even a seemingly minor flaw in a chip packed with billions of electrical connections might cause a critical operation in a computer or other sensitive electronic device to fail. By …

Float Bot for Water Tank

“Sensing the Water Tank with Machine Learning & Matter The Story Begins With.. It’s been a year since I was not active with the hackster.io community. Just came back from the break with this new and one of my …

High Power LED Board

“Prepared a custom HIGH POWER LED Driver board for driving four XPLAW LEDs. It consists of Four XPLAWT LEDs that are High-Intensity LEDs each rated for 3A Max and their operating Voltage is 2.8V to 3.2V. Why LED …

Higher speeds in free-space optical communications in the midinfrared band

“Unipolar quantum optoelectronic devices show potential for fast, long-range optical links that are also resistant to adverse weather conditions. Telecommunications have reshaped many aspects of our lives over the past few decades by providing incredibly convenient ways to share and …

In machine learning, synthetic data can offer real performance improvements

“Models trained on synthetic data can be more accurate than other models in some cases, which could eliminate some privacy, copyright, and ethical concerns from using real data. Teaching a machine to recognize human actions has many potential applications, such …

Introducing a novel molecular orbital interaction that stabilises cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries

“A large international team led by scientists from the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at the University of Wollongong has verified that the introduction of novel molecular orbital interactions can improve the structural stability of cathode materials for lithium-ion …

IR Remote Controlled Car Using a Protoshield

“Making a smart car kit smaller. I started a project that was worth moving from a breadboard and onto a protoshield; an IR remote controlled car using an L293D H-bridge motor driver. NOTE The story I have written below is …

ITMO Scientists Create Method to Quickly Detect Painting Authenticity

“In collaboration with the staff of the State Russian Museum, researchers from ITMO University have developed a new method for detecting painting authenticity with infrared spectroscopy. The method will allow the museum’s experts to quickly identify a painting’s …

LSU Researchers Collaborate to Better Understand the Weak Nuclear Force

“Physics journal PRL features LSU nuclear physics research. Physical Review Letters, PRL, the world’s premier physics letter journal, has published two papers by a team of Louisiana State University nuclear physics researchers to advance the knowledge on the important …