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2D materials offer unique stretching properties

“Calculations predict that atom-thin sheets of carbon chalcogenides will grow wider when stretched in any direction. Like most materials, an elastic band gets thinner when it is stretched. But some materials behave in the opposite way — they grow thicker when …

3D-printed home in Dutch city expands housing options

“Elize Lutz and Harrie Dekkers’ new home is a 94-square meter (1,011-square foot) two-bedroom bungalow that resembles a boulder with windows. The curving lines of its gray concrete walls look and feel natural. But they are actually at the …

A material-keyboard made of graphene

“Researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded in turning specially prepared graphene flakes either into insulators or into superconductors by applying an electric voltage. This technique even works locally, meaning that in the same graphene flake regions with completely different physical …

A silver lining for extreme electronics

“Michigan State researchers are building tougher circuits to help withstand the grueling demands of energy production, space exploration and more Tomorrow’s cutting-edge technology will need electronics that can tolerate extreme conditions. That’s why a group of researchers led …

Arduino Tinfoil Piano

“In this Instructables I will explain how to make this Arduino Tinfoil Piano. Supplies: - Arduino - Breadboard - 10MΩ Resistor x8 - Piezo Buzzer - Jumpers - Double Sided Tape - Tinfoil - Cardboard”

Project  ArduinoFDC

ArduinoFDC

“ArduinoFDC is a sketch that implements a floppy disk controller. It works on an Arduino UNO, Nano, Pro Mini or MEGA. ArduinoFDC consists of three parts: A library providing low-level functions to allow reading and writing disks at the sector …

ATtiny85 BOOST CONVERTER

“ATtiny85 Boost Converter Today in this episode of Arduino projects I am going to introduce you with a new electronic circuit. This electronic circuit that I am going to introduce is known as ‘Boost Converter’ or ‘Step-up Converter’ or ‘DC …

Augmented Reality (AR) with Internet of Things (IoT)

“This is fun project to demonstrate an integration of IoT sensor data on augmented reality dashboard using Unity and Vuforia. This is a demonstration of Augment Reality with Internet of Things. My home office temperature and humidity is displayed on …

AVR TPI Programming With usbasp For Dummies

“There is an odd famine of information about this particular subject available in text form. If you google “usbasp tpi” and things like it, you’ll find posts on the avr forums filled with incorrect information and schematics. This post …

Battery powered Tv remote control with 3D-printed case

“Make your own TV remote! My girlfriend’s TV remote control stopped working. She could have bought a cheap replacement at a store nearby, but then she thought: we are both engineers, let’s make our own one together! As …