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Toshiba Releases New M4G Group of Arm® Cortex®-M4 Microcontrollers for High-speed Data Processing in the TXZ+TM Family Advanced Class

“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has started the mass production of 20 new devices in the M4G group for high-speed data processing as new products of the TXZ+TM family advanced class manufactured in a 40nm process. These products …

Toshiba’s Polymer Film-Based Perovskite Large-Area Photovoltaic Module Reaches Record Power Conversion Efficiency of 15.1%

“Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), the world-leader in development of perovskite photovoltaic modules for next-generation solar power generation, has developed a new coating method for the perovskite layer that boosts power conversion efficiency (PCE) to 15.1% for Toshiba’s 703cm2 …

Ultrasound at the nanometre scale reveals the nature of force

“Researchers have developed a new method to measure force and atomic bonds at the nanoscale that reveals that the speed of sound depends on the structure it is travelling through. Scientists from the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University used …

Unprecedented Plasma Lensing for High-Intensity Lasers

“High-power laser pulses focused to small spots to reach incredible intensities enable a variety of applications, ranging from scientific research to industry and medicine. At the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center, for instance, intensity is key to building particle …

UNSW scientists solve decade-old graphene oxide puzzle

“A fundamental discovery in materials science has potential applications for water filtration and energy storage. Imagine scattering a big box of LEGO bricks on your living room floor. A few days later you come back, and they have magically formed …

Vinny Fry: Wired for success

“MIT engineer oversees design and testing of key magnet components for the Institute’s SPARC fusion project. Vinny Fry had only a rudimentary understanding of fusion energy, gleaned in part from “Iron Man” films, when he made the Google search …

VR Distance Head With ESP32-cams

“Video conferencing can be boring, right? Better to see everything in 3D. Stereoscopic pictures are fascinating, so I decided to catch an image for each eye and send this to VR glasses. This tutorial shows how to build a moving …

1kW Arduino MPPT Solar Charge Controller (ESP32 + WiFi)

“Build a 1kW WiFi MPPT Solar Charge Controller, equipped with phone app datalogging telemetry! (Android & IoS) It is compatible with 80V 30A solar panel setups and all battery chemistries up to 50V. The project is based on an Arduino ESP32 …

3d Printed Measuring Tools and Useful Accessories

“Hello again .. Today in this Instructables I’m going to show some examples of some 3d printed tools and items which I have designed and printed in the last few weeks.. Recently I got my own 3d printer…A very …

3D_water_depth_logger

“A simple Arduino based logger for depth mapping of water bodies. Using cheap and simple hardware like a GPS module, an SD card and a standard NMEA capable echolot sounder. The data is then transformed into a depth map with …