I am smitten with the idea of the beeping Easter Egg for visually impaired kids - see this post for more. Despite digging around, I couldn't find any designs or diagrams for their egg. So, I designed my own. Originally I thought ...
A bomb squad in St. Charles hardwired Easter eggs to make a chirping sound so children with special needs would be able to participate in an egg hunt for the first time. (Care of Roberto Rodriguez of St. Louis Post-Dispatch) I love this story.. ...
A sample of what Operator looks like. Created by Hoefler & Co this font focuses on tricky punctuation (via Typography) Typefaces affect how we see things. There's the standard Times New Roman that you can't go wrong with or the dread...
Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a way to record and retrieve data on the fifth dimension. The process involves using light to read information on nanostructured glass. The data files can last billions of years and are bein...
Researchers at Switzerland’s ETH Zurich successfully made the world’s smallest optical network switch. At one-atom in size, it may revolutionize network infrastructure in only a few years’ time. (via ETH) In order to keep up with the increasing ...
I have been working on a new interface board for the Jetson TK1 embedded supercomputer called the Jetduino. It makes it very easy to build robots that can use the parallel processing capabilites of the NVIDIA GPU for vision and neural neural networks...
Researchers of CU-Boulder, MIT and UC Berkeley have successfully built a photonic microchip that uses light to transmit data. It has a bandwidth of 300 gigabits across a minute 3x6mm area and is the first of its kind. It may revolutionize data transm...
Ordinary roses or a living, renewable biofuel source? Possible both? A group of Swedish scientists have made an epic breakthrough by successful incorporating functioning circuitry into a living organism (in this case, a common rose). They recently re...
This chip is a huge step forward in fiber optic communications. University of Colorado researchers combined electrons and photons within a single chip for this landmark development. (all images via University of Colorado & Glenn Asakawa) Her...
www.youtube.com/watchA team of researchers from Columbia Engineering, Seoul National University and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science recently developed the world’s smallest lightbulb – at just one atom thick – using graphene. The str...
For the second installment in the 32 vs 8 bit MCU series I will get a little more technical here and talk about processing power, interrupt latency, pointer efficiency and pointer ease of use.The two architectures that I am very familiar with are the...
When beginning a project that you know will contain an MCU there are so many options that it may be overwhelming. One of the biggest questions is what size MCU should you use? I will release a series of articles that will shed some light ...
Made out of Gorilla Glass, the chip obliterates itself. This new chip shatters into thousands of pieces under extreme stress. (via Xerox PARC, pic via IDG.tv)I was just thinking, there has to be a way to store data that will self-destruct upon access...
Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are without a doubt central to all electronics. As technology advances, however, PCBs must be made faster and smaller than ever before. Before you get busy, make sure you nip sloppy PCB production in the bud, before it c...
Add USB interface in 4 easy steps with CP210x family Sometimes we forget to add USB to our designs, or we need USB to access the design more efficiently from our development platform.Don’t worry. It’s easy to drop-in USB connectivity to any desi...
Plasmonic Circuit. A research team from ETH Zurich recently published an article in Nature Photonics that announced the discovery of a new technology that enables faster, cheaper data transmission. (via Nature Phontonics)Networks may get an upg...
Memristor Circuit. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Stony Brook University successfully built a neural network to house memristors. The prototype was successful in recognizing small images and may be expanded to develop futuristic computers that s...
Hi all, I recently bought a development board LPC4357 - EVB .I can not so much regarding ARM programming or no experience when it comes ULINK2 , Keil and LPC4357 - EVB . I have downloaded Examples2 \ GPIO \ Gpio_LedBlinky project .When I pr...
NASA eel bot that may delve into the depths of moon Europa. NASA recently announced their current 15 winners of NIAC funding for $100,000 for each candidate. Among them is a project to develop a robotic eel to explore Europa, Jupiter’s moon. (v...
Chalmers University of Technology researchers have found that large area graphene helps prolong the spin of electrons over longer periods of time (via Chalmers)Chances are you own a smartphone, tablet or PC/laptop that features some form of solid-sta...
Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi (via Microchip)Microchip Technology, Inc., is celebrating this week, as it was just named the number one provider of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCU) globally. The title was awarded by Garner’s annual ranking publication, in it...
Hi All, I just saw the official TI Webinar on the new MSP432 processor. The 13 USD Launchpad is very impressive, but the new features of the TI software are awesome. They evidently spent some time looking at the excellent Cypress Semic...
After watching everyone else explore the Raspberry Pi, I finally took the plunge with the RPi 2. I finally got all the pieces in place, plugged it in and about 15 min later, my RPi 2 was alive and well. My only complaint was the 6 point typ...
Flash is the storage technology used inside the thinnest, lightest laptops and nearly every cellphone, tablet and mobile device. With users of these devices constantly demanding increasing functionality the amount of NAND flash memory needed ha...
Silicene Structure concept art (via UT at Austin) While some researchers are hard at work to achieve quantum computing on a chip, scientists from the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School are busy making history. The research team rece...
