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Voice-Activated LED Strip for $10: Pi Pico and Edge Impulse

“Build a voice-activated LED light strip controller on the cheap with Raspberry Pi Pico. LED light strips, sometimes called “Neopixels” in the maker community, are the perfect choice for interior lighting. They’re easy to install, inexpensive, and are completely …

Watchdog of high CO2 levels

“Story I often work for hours in a close room so I got an idea to make my own appliance - my CO2 cube - to warn me if there are higher levels of CO2 in the room. Then it is the …

Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in the Cartwheel Galaxy

“The space telescope’s powerful infrared gaze provides a new view of how the galaxy has changed over billions of years. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about …

When waste products can build a wall

“Firing bricks and making mortar and cement is costly, but organic chemists at Flinders University are working on more sustainable alternatives – focusing on building materials made from waste products. In another move into the circular economy, researchers from the Chalker …

A key role for quantum entanglement

“A method known as quantum key distribution has long held the promise of communication security unattainable in conventional cryptography. An international team of scientists, including ETH physicists, has now demonstrated experimentally, for the first time, an approach to quantum key …

AI tackles the challenge of materials structure prediction

“Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with five times the efficiency of the current standard, removing a key roadblock in developing advanced materials for applications such as energy storage and photovoltaics …

Anti-butterfly effect enables new benchmarking of quantum-computer performance

“Running a quantum system backward, then forward in time distinguishes information leaks from the desired information scrambling. Research drawing on the quantum “anti-butterfly effect” solves a longstanding experimental problem in physics and establishes a method for benchmarking the performance of …

Arduino weighing machine(scale) with analog showing

“This is a Retro style weighing machine where the result is displayed on the Galvanometer instead of LCD Display. This time I will show you how to make a weighing machine where the result is displayed on the Galvanometer. Instead …

Artificial skin sweats on command

“The sophisticated artificial skin sweats where and how much the researchers want it to. This was reported in an Angewandte Chemie article by Danqing Liu and first author Yuanyuan Zhan. Following the breakthrough with their first sweating artificial skin two …

Autonomous Lawn Mower without GPS RTK

“Building a few cm precision without GPS RTK. What do you do, if you have a garden to mow, some spare Arduino devices and enthusiasm forembedded and control systems :) You build an Autonomous Lawn mower. If you are not fond …