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The World’s Smallest Prototyping Board

“Matching an SO-23 Chip to a TO-92 Footprint. The picture above shows one of my home-brew proto board adapters with an SO-23 chip, in action on a populated and soldered PCB. In the background, a standard TO …

Toshiba Adds Five New MOSFET Gate Driver ICs that Will Help Reduce Device Footprints

“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has added five products to its lineup of MOSFET gate driver ICs in the TCK42xG Series for mobile devices such as wearables. The new products in the series are equipped with an overvoltage lockout …

Updated Standard Provides Fundamental 3D-Printing Design Guidance to Streamline Production

“Since the 1940s, engineers have used a common design language — a set of definitions, symbols and practices — to draft engineering drawings that can serve as clear manufacturing blueprints or inspection checklists. While this system still works well for many traditional …

UQ discovery paves the way for faster computers, longer-lasting batteries

“University of Queensland scientists have cracked a problem that’s frustrated chemists and physicists for years, potentially leading to a new age of powerful, efficient, and environmentally friendly technologies. Using quantum mechanics, Professor Ben Powell from UQ’s School of …

Vending Machine with RFID

“A simple code and design to build a vending machine with cardboard or a 3D printer! I’ve seen so many YouTube videos and pictures of people making things like this however they never gave the code; so, I decided …

WatchEye - One Eyed Pet With Face Tracking

“WatchEye - One-eyed Pet With Face Tracking I enjoyed the Instructable “Twitch” very much and it was very inspiring: an electronic pet that reacts to touch and blink with its eye. But I wanted a pet that could really look at …

A new duality discovered at Purdue University solves a physics mystery

“In conventional wisdom, producing a curved space requires distortions, such as bending or stretching a flat space. A team of researchers at Purdue University have discovered a new method to create curved spaces that also solves a mystery in physics …

Advanced Water Management (AWM) in 10 Steps

“If 100 people lived on Earth, 74 had drinking water available when needed and free of contamination. (source: who). With this instructable, slightly more. The equipment presented here permanently monitors and controls the water supply for a community of 7 …

Air Quality Monitoring ESP32-Based System

“The system will be an ESP32 NodeMCU-based Air Quality monitoring system for checking PM, particulate matter (PM) as well as humidity… Air Quality Monitoring ESP32-Based System The system will be an ESP32 NodeMCU-based Air Quality monitoring system for checking …

Artificial intelligence for stable processes in industry

“Bottle jams on the conveyor belt or overheated machines – such interruptions to production cost a lot of time and money. ETH spin-​off Cerrion detects and analyses problems in the process automatically and in real time. The example of a …