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Make your UPS smarter with ESP8266 and PCF8591

“The UPS did not shut down the computer in the event of a power outage. This hack makes the UPS smarter, I made this circuit with ESP8266 I have a well-functioning UPS with a faulty network interface, I use it …

Metamaterial Tiles Boost Sensitivity of Large Telescopes

“A multi-institutional group of researchers has developed new metamaterial tiles that will help improve the sensitivity of telescopes being built at the preeminent Simons Observatory in Chile. The tiles have been incorporated into receivers that will be deployed at the …

Micron Delivers Industry’s First 1α DRAM Technology

“Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced volume shipment of 1α (1-alpha) node DRAM products built using the world’s most advanced DRAM process technology and offering major improvements in bit density, power and performance. This milestone reinforces Micron’s …

my_smarthome#1

“Infrastructure project to get a “smarter” home. Raspberry pi as mqtt-broker, as data collector & data transmitter. ESP8266 as mqtt-client. The Story The goal of the project is to install a infrastructure for IoT another projects at home.To verify the …

NASA CubeSat to Demonstrate Water-Fueled Moves in Space

“A NASA CubeSat will launch into low-Earth orbit to demonstrate a new type of propulsion system. Carrying a pint of liquid water as fuel, the system will split the water into hydrogen and oxygen in space and burn them in …

Need a lift? SpaceX launches record spacecraft in cosmic rideshare program

“A veteran rocket from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company launched 143 spacecraft into space on Sunday, a new record for the most spaceships deployed on a single mission, according to the company. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted …

Neon Lamp Tea Light

“Neon lamps, also known as neon glow lamps, are wonderful little bulbs that glow orange when you give them high voltage and low current. Neon lamps are mostly obsolete now; they belong to an era when many electronic devices were …

New blueprint for more stable quantum computers

“Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have put forward a detailed plan of how faster and better defined quantum bits – qubits – can be created. The central elements are magnetic atoms from the class of so-called rare-earth metals, which would …

Not Your Typical 1Hz Source

“In this post, I go over how to generate a 1Hz clock source through an unusual way. I have been looking for an accurate clock source for another project (that I will be publishing here soon). The more accurate an …

Ohmmeter 2.0

“Miguel Alejandro Ramrez Anaya and Jos Miguel Galeas Merchn, students of ‘Electrnica Creativa’ (Creative Electronics), a Beng Electronics Engineering module at the University of Mlaga, School of Telecommunications. We decide to make as final project a Ohmmeter using Arduino Mega …