Member and Staff Blogs

Electrical Engineers and the Prospect of Unionizing

Catwell

(Image credit: Pexels) Trade unions have been around since the Assyrian empire ruled Mesopotamia in 2334 BC and created common standards for length, area, volume, height and time. Those standards were used by artisan guilds to build ships and guaran...
- 30 Dec 2021
The calendar running on M5Stack Core Ink

kk99

Some time ago I bought the M5Stack CoreInk board. This board has a nice e-ink display, ESP32 SoC, built-in battery and easy access to GPIOs. My initial purpose was to use it in some experiments or when needed make a quick solution to test other pro...
- 29 Dec 2021
Just Encase Design Challenge - Application

skruglewicz

Reason for the Design Challenge: Introduction My Idea for this design Challenge will be to Research, design and Implement an Environment Reliability Monitor (ERM). The Software will be run on the 2 supplied Arduino boards that will be placed in the s...
- 17 Dec 2021
Albert Einstein and Michele Besso’s manuscript sells for $13 million at Paris auction

Catwell

(Image Credit: Taton Moise/Unsplash) Better keep better notes of your work! Could be a piece of historical importance some day. On November 23rd, Albert Einstein and Michele Besso’s rare 54-page manuscript was sold to an unnamed private indivi...
- 15 Dec 2021
Queen of Project14

scottiebabe

Soft 404
- 15 Dec 2021
The Advent of Code challenge has returned for 2021!

Catwell

Developers or anyone interested in improving their coding skills can participate in the Advent of Code challenge. (Image Credit: Advent of Code) It's that time of year again! I almost forgot about it. Last year’s was interesting. Developer...
- 13 Dec 2021
Swag Bags!

Andrew J

Received a couple of swag bags recently containing some awesome things (even though I picked the contents of one of them!) Firstly, a thingy91 from a recent webinar, along with a Silicon Labs Thunderboard Sense 2, an ATTINY1614 8-bit MCU, another dan...
- 13 Dec 2021
How is content corrolated....the learning curve

colporteur

When you log-in to the community site the landing page has these tabs. Question: What Blogs, Forums, Docs are culled to generate the listing? I assumed all of blogs, forums and docs content but my current work has proven otherwise. I pos...
- 10 Dec 2021
Photos of a late 80's cassette deck

Jan Cumps

I opened my cassette deck today, to remove the dust it collected.I took some photos: It's grown a beard: The inside is perfectly clean, but the cassette well has collected a lot of lint. A bit surprising, because other gear in my...
- 2 Dec 2021
[jc2048] Staircase Generator

jc2048

Introduction Here's a curious waveform. How do you think I did that? At first glance it looks like the output of a DAC driven from an incrementing counter, but it's not. Instead, I have a digital part (a CPLD), producing a simple stream of pulses, a...
- 27 Nov 2021
[jc2048] Blog Index (New Version)

jc2048

This is a new version of my blog index. The original Jive version can be found here: jc2048 Blog Index I've created this new version because the old one can't be edited and added to. Electronic Art 9 Pieces of Pi: Slice 1: The Long Way Round 9 P...
- 23 Nov 2021
DeepMind's AI uses Nowcasting to Predict Almost Exactly Where and When it will Rain

Catwell

DeepMind partnered with the Met Office to advance Nowcasting science and accurately predicting rainfall within a two-hour time window. (Image credit: Pixabay) This is the first time I’ve been worried about AI taking a job over completely. It’s ...
- 5 Oct 2021
Astro Pi – A Raspberry Pi 4 in Outer Space

Catwell

The ESA is sending these Raspberry Pi computers to the ISS. (Image Credit: RPi Foundation) Raspberry Pi enthusiasts can send their code to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year, following 2015’s Astro Pi challenge. That Pri...
- 17 Sep 2021
Members of Afghan All-Girls Robotics Team Land Safely in Qatar

Catwell

Image credit: Digital Citizen Fund I've been following this story from the beginning. It's moved so fast. But, I think they are safe now... Here's the story. Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and subsequent Taliban ...
- 24 Aug 2021
2021 survey data reveals the most hated and loved programming languages

Catwell

Stack Overflow’s 2021 developer survey reveals that coders hate the COBOL programming language the most. (Image Credit: Pakata Goh/Unsplash) I can’t say I dislike any one programming language. Matlab was annoying in school, I suppose. C#, maybe....
- 11 Aug 2021
Get Yourself Certified with our Ultra96 Workshop

cstanton

Earn Certificates from Our Workshops / Webinars From the request of our members we're trialling something new (for us). Often we're asked "hey, can I get a certificate for attending the webinar?" and we were like "that&#...
- 11 Aug 2021
Recycle your electricals campaign offers a solution to increasing e-waste in Glasgow

Catwell

Material Focus launched a campaign in Glasgow that focuses on recycling and reusing e-waste. This solution could help slow down the impact of rare earth mineral extraction. (Image Credit: Remade Network) Material Focus, a non-profit organization...
- 9 Aug 2021
Brain implant allows man to communicate using only his thoughts

Catwell

Using the device, the man was able to speak at a rate of 15 words per minute. Researchers say this could be a major breakthrough for computer-mediated communication. (Image credit: UCSF) I love developments like this. What a step forward. P...
- 22 Jul 2021
Introduce new member

dwinhold

Hello everyone, I want to introduce a new member to the community. nwinhold Nicholas Winhold, my son, joined us yesterday. He is wanting to learn electronics and designing so he came to the best place. Proud dad, Dale Winhold
- 24 May 2021
Brain implant allows paralyzed man to communicate by imagining handwriting

Catwell

A man paralyzed from the neck down imagined writing with a pen. The implants read his writing thoughts and displayed them on screen. (Image Credit: Stanford University) Stanford University researchers have developed a brain-computer interface ca...
- 14 May 2021
Earth Day Roundup: The Cause and Effects of Climate Change and how it's Being Addressed

Catwell

(Image credit: Pixabay) There's hope... We, and everything else, live in a giant greenhouse that depends on the sun's energy to maintain a delicate balance of life. About half of the light that travels to Earth's atmosphere passes through t...
- 23 Apr 2021
Earth Day miracle: New process makes biodegradable plastics breakdown using only heat and water

Catwell

A team from the University of California, Berkley, have developed a new method to make plastics truly compostable. The modified plastic breaks down in less time using just heat and water. (Photo from University of California) A little shining ho...
- 22 Apr 2021
MagicDNA Software Allows Scientists to Design Complex DNA Robots in just Minutes

Catwell

This airplane was designed using the MagicDNA software and strands of DNA, coming in at 1000-times smaller than the width of a human hair. (Image credit: Ohio State University) Scientists from Ohio State University have developed a method to de...
- 21 Apr 2021
Researchers produce borophane, an atomically-thin 2D stable form of boron - graphene replacement?

Catwell

Researchers produced borophane, a 2D form of boron that is stable at standard temperatures and air pressures. Borophane could have applications for batteries, electronics, sensors, photovoltaics, and quantum computing. (Image Credit: Mark Hersa...
- 19 Mar 2021
Researchers have created a physical model of a possible warp drive

Catwell

A visualization of an Alcibierre warp drive, which is expanding and contracting space-time. (Image Credit: AllenMcC/Wikimedia, Creative Commons) We might be seeing warp drives that would enable faster space travel in the future. I doubt any time...
- 16 Mar 2021