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Bluetooth Curtain

“For some time, I had that a green background curtain in my workshop. I sometimes use it when I want to change the background of my videos, because is very easy to use that effect. As I had it till …

Building LM35 4 Channel Amplifier Board

“In this article,I will explain how to assemble the 4 channel LM35 amplifer board we made. This instructable requires that the user is comfortable operating and using a soldering iron. Reading resistor Colour codes or using a multimeter to …

Calculating Pi digits on first Intel microprocessor (intel 4004)

“Introduction One day I thought about the performance gap between the first Intel processor and modern machines. Of course, we can try to do some estimations empirically – we know clock rate and how the pipeline is organized and what features …

Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released

“Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is now generally available, featuring significant leaps forward in cloud confidential computing, real-time kernel for industrial applications, and enterprise Active Directory, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FIPS and FedRAMP compliance – raising the bar for open source from …

Cheaper solar cells could be on the way thanks to materials created at Imperial

“New solar cell devices that are cheaper and easier to make could soon make their way to market thanks to materials made at Imperial College London. Traditional solar cells are made from silicon, which has good efficiency and stability, but …

Crayon Car Mechanism.

“A few weeks ago, a video appeared in my recommended video feed from Tim at GrandIllusions (https://www.youtube.com/c/grandillusions) showing a crayon line following toy car designed forty years ago that had no electronics whatsoever, but no …

DIY UPDI USB programmer which can be made with cheap hardware

“If you are interested in DIY electronics, at one point in life you might encounter an Atmel MCU with an UPDI programming interface. The original programmer costs quite a lot, so most obvious solution would be to make one by …

Electric Vehicle EV Charger

“I built my own 7.2kW EV charger and fitted it inside a Zappi enclosure. The 2 aims were simplicity and safety. This article documents the build. I wrote the Arduino software for it and all design files, software and …

Illuminating perovskite photophysics

“Light causes small rapid distortions in solar cell material, affecting how charge carriers behave. A detailed view of how electrical charges behave inside perovskites could guide efforts to improve the performance of next-generation solar cells based on these materials, KAUST …

Inspired by Prehistoric Creatures, NIST Researchers Make Record-Setting Lenses

“Drawing lessons from the compound eyes of trilobites, NIST researchers fabricate tiny lenses that see both near and far. Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites — creatures that were distant cousins of horseshoe crabs. All …