Reading Time: 2 minutesThe scourge of air pollution claims several million lives globally each year, with industrial processes and energy production accounting for much of it. Because of its harmful nature, governments often set up air quality monitoring stations, although they have to cover large areas and yield…
December 7, 2022 AT 8:00 pm Skin is a pretty remarkable material. Researchers are looking at e-skins that would function more like real skin. Wired talks to Zhenan Bao who is working towards electronic second skin and the potential of flexible electronics.For Bao, a chemical engineer focused on…
December 7, 2022 AT 6:00 pm If you’re up late at night with bright ideas or woke up at 2am remembering a paper that is due for your 8am class, CMoz created this awesome personal secret lamp. It uses a small LED that is placed on the thumb,…
December 7, 2022 AT 5:04 pm Antonio Cheong has posted to GitHub a Reverse Engineered ChatGPT. ChatGPT, an AI program on the web, has taken the internet by storm lately after improvements have provided it the algorithm to generate much better, realistic output text.There is a Wiki with…
December 7, 2022 AT 4:37 pm This week @adafruit we’re making a glowing snowflake ornament with LED noodles! Prototyping a countdown event clock with alphanumeric segment displays. Timelapse this week features a knitted stocking designed by DaveMakesStuff.YouTube Video https://youtu.be/55O4vTuxpVULearn Guide https://learn.adafruit.com/led-noodle-snowflake/LED Noodles – yellow https://www.adafruit.com/product/5509LED Noodles – warm…
December 7, 2022 AT 2:40 pm Slightly aged PCIe-enabled equipment intended for computer networking applications often feature miniPCIe slots. Adding storage capability to this type of device can be difficult.Even if one or more of the mini PCIe slots are SATA-enabled availability of fitting mSATA SSDs is continually…
December 7, 2022 AT 10:00 am While we’re all waiting to finish up work today to have a go at the freshly released Mario Kart tracks, it seems reasonable to listen to Gaming Historian cover The Story of Super Mario Kart, right? I think so.Despite receiving little hype,…
December 7, 2022 AT 10:00 am ‘Tis the season for a little festive mixology. This video looks at three of the most inexpensive methods for creating clear ice for drinks.I love the third method, which is simply using an insulated travel tumbler. The impurities will settle to the…
December 7, 2022 AT 9:37 am Davide Gironi looks to add a buzzer circuit on an existing intercom system.On the external unit the button is connected to a 5V and a GND route. I suppose the 5V is a pullup connection to the unit microcontroller. I decide to use…
December 7, 2022 AT 9:30 am SpriteMods has miniaturized an IBM PC playing Doom in a holiday themed package:“I 3D-printed a small Christmas bauble modeled on an IBM PC, stuffed it with the tiniest LCD I could find, added a processor and the logic to make it work…
