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Mouse the Self-driving Robot

“Mouse is a simple maze solving robot to teach students and young engineers about robotics and the use of a micro-controllers. The robot uses a Micro:bit connected to a Kitronic motor diver board and an ultra-sonic sensor to find …

Nanosheet-based electronics could be one drop away

“A surprisingly simple method improves ‘drop casting’ fabrication of tiled nanosheets that could be used in next-generation electronic devices. All you need is a pipette and a hotplate. Scientists at Japan’s Nagoya University and the National Institute for Materials …

NASA InSight’s ‘Mole’ Ends Its Journey on Mars

“The heat probe hasn’t been able to gain the friction it needs to dig, but the mission has been granted an extension to carry on with its other science. The heat probe developed and built by the German Aerospace …

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Reaches Its 3,000th Day on Mars

“As the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it’s found distinctive benchlike rock formations. It’s been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched down on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and the rover keeps making …

NASA’s Juno Mission Expands Into the Future

“The spacecraft, which has been gathering data on the gas giant since July 2016, will become an explorer of the full Jovian system – Jupiter and its rings and moons. NASA has authorized a mission extension for its Juno spacecraft exploring …

Neopixel Arcade Led Game

“This is a small game made by Me {Anni Boy } using Arduino UNO in Tinkercad Circuits. You can also use real-life Arduino instead of using Tinkercad for higher performance. Follow the steps shown below… Components: 1. Arduino UNO 2. Liquid …

Neopixel Charcuterie Board

“I love addressable LED lights and while brainstorming ideas for ways to use them I decided I wanted to try using epoxy resin to make a charcuterie board. The plan was to dye the epoxy white to have an opaque …

Neuroscientists identify brain circuit that encodes timing of events

“When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of not only what happened, but also the context, including the time and location of the event. A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on how the timing …

New strategies for designing electroluminescent materials

“A collaborative team of materials scientists and theoretical chemists provide hybrid perovskite nanoparticles that are high-efficiency light emitters by using a comprehensive defect-suppression strategy. New research details how a class of electroluminescent materials, key components of devices such as LED …

New way to control electrical charge in 2D materials: Put a flake on it

“Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered how to locally add electrical charge to an atomically thin graphene device by layering flakes of another thin material, alpha-RuCl3, on top of it. A paper published in the journal Nano …