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Touch Tic-Tac-Toe

“A 4x4 Tic-Tac-Toe game using a 4x4 touch pad and a ATtiny3216 CPU A while back I built my Touch-A-Mole game which is a version of Whack-A-Mole game that uses a 4x4 capacitive touch pad with LEDs mounted in the …

Toward a Quantum Computer That Calculates Molecular Energy

“Researchers at Columbia and Google Quantum AI have developed an algorithm that uses the most quantum bits to date to calculate ground state energy, the lowest-energy state in a quantum mechanical system. The discovery could help make it easier to …

UCLA Materials Scientists Lead Global Team in Finding Solutions to Biggest Hurdle for Solar Cell Technology

“Fix in a manufacturing step of perovskite solar cells paves the way for commercialization of the high-performance, sunlight-to-electricity discovery. Materials scientists at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and colleagues from five other universities around the world have discovered the …

Using ions to find molecules

“When we think of ions, we usually think of single atoms that have lost or gained some electrons, but entire molecules can also become ions. In a new publication that was highlighted as an Editor’s Suggestion in Physical Review …

Vintage Rotary Phone MIDI Controller

“I’ve wanted to do something musical with a vintage rotary telephone for a while now, so when I happened to come across one in a charity shop, I jumped at the chance to have a go! Be warned: there …

WeatherBot - a Motorised Weather Machine | 3D Printable, ESP32 & OpenWeatherMap

“How to build your own Weather Forecasting Theatre with ESP32 Meet WeatherBot, my WiFi connected weather forecasting machine. WeatherBot retrieves a local forecast from OpenWeatherMaps and then shows you tomorrows weather with a motorised mini diorama. It automatically updates every …

World Alarm Clock

“This small battery powered clock can be configured to display as a analog clock, digital clock, world clock or as a digital alarm clock. This clock is similar to the Nokia Analog Digital Alarm Clock that I built a few …

WVU researcher makes magnetic reconnection breakthrough, may help predict space weather

“A West Virginia University postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy has made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic reconnection, which could prevent space storms from wreaking havoc on the Earth’s satellite and power grid systems …

ZX80/81 Project

“Recreation of a Sinclair ZX81 (dual rom 80/81) based on Grant Searle’s project. The Sinclair ZX81 was my first computer, I learned how to program (in basic) using this machine in late 80’s. It’s a master …

A First Step Towards Quantum Algorithms: Minimizing the Guesswork of a Quantum Ensemble

“In a groundbreaking study, researchers have derived analytical solutions to the guesswork problem for quantum ensembles A quantum ensemble—a set of quantum states with their corresponding probabilities—is essential to the encoding of classical information for transmission over quantum …