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Paper Pi Handheld

“This is the Raspberry Pi E-Ink Handheld, an art project with a few goals in mind: Implement a reliable battry power and charging system Custom thumb Keyboard with the Miryoku layout that I wanted more experience with. Also an opportunity …

Particle Accelerator Demo

“A while ago I decide to try to make a simple demo of particle accelerator, and I finally managed to do it. In this Instructable I will show you step by step how to make it. Before we start, let …

Patching up your health

“Researchers at Osaka University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH develop ultrathin self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user’s pulse and blood pressure, which may lead to new flexible motion-based energy harvesting devices Scientists at Osaka University, in cooperation with JOANNEUM …

Polymer-Based Coatings on Metallic Implants Improve Bone-Implant Integration

“Traffic accidents, tumor resections, and congenital diseases can cause significant trauma, which can lead to large bone deformations and/or bone loss. Although bone has some capacity to regenerate, large bone defects cannot be healed without major medical procedures. In …

Pulse Oximeter and Heart Rate Monitor

“Arduinos are incredibly useful tools for all sorts of projects. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic, having easy, fast, cheap, and reliable access to health information is more important than ever. While an Arduino might not be the tool of …

Radio astronomers discover 8 new millisecond pulsars

“A group of astronomers has discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within the dense clusters of stars, known as “globular clusters”, using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope. Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars, the most compact star known, that spin up …

Raspberry Pi Floppy Controller Board

“Purpose If there’s one criticism I hear more often than any other about the pi, it’s “I wish my Raspberry Pi had a floppy drive“. It’s really shocking that the pi doesn’t have the ubiquitous 34-pin …

Raspberry Pi Zero USB Copier

“I was looking for stand alone “headless” Raspberry Pi USB Copier software and stumbled upon Luke Hutchison’s “usb-copier” which allows you to copy, view and wipe USB sticks. After seeing the picture of it utilizing the Adafruit 128×64 …

Reducing blue light with a new type of LED that won’t keep you up all night

“To be more energy efficient, many people have replaced their incandescent lights with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. However, those currently on the market emit a lot of blue light, which has been linked to eye troubles and sleep disturbances. Now …

Regent is making a flying electric ferry with a top speed of 180 miles per hour

“A Boston start-up called Regent wants to make flying ferries the best way to travel between coastal cities. The start-up is developing an “electric seaglider” that can motor out of a harbor on a hydrofoil, take off at a low …