Collaborate Disseminate
Storing energy can be done in many ways, with the chemical storage method of a battery being one of the most common. Another option is a thermal battery, which basically …read more Continue reading Making a Do-It-Yourself Sand Battery
On November 14th of this year, the FDA cleared the path for Upside Foods to sell its cell-culture-based chicken products within the US. This is the first product of its …read more Continue reading FDA’s Approval of Cell Culture Chicken: the Rise of Fresh Meat Without The Animal?
With the rise in voice-driven virtual assistants over the years, the sight of people talking to various electrical devices in public and in private has become rather commonplace. While such …read more Continue reading On Getting a Computer’s Attention and Striking Up a Conversation
We have all seen Printed Circuit Board (PCB) antennas: those squiggly bits of traces on PCBs connected often to a Bluetooth, WiFi or other wireless communication chip. On modules like …read more Continue reading The Many Ways You Can Easily Ruin Your PCB Antenna Design
Over the decades, a lot of attempts have been made to try and make pens and pencils “smart”. Whether it’s to enable a pen to also digitally record what we’re …read more Continue reading DeltaPen: Drawing, Painting And Taking Notes Without The Drawing Tablet
The Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) interface was initially standardized by Motorola in 1979 for short-distance communication in embedded systems. In its most common four-wire configuration, full-duplex data transfer is possible …read more Continue reading Bare-Metal STM32: Setting Up And Using SPI
Most of us probably know the drudgery of getting through some coding work, with just tedious hours of monkeying around stretching ahead of us. What if this tedium were to …read more Continue reading Hacking Developers With a Cat Feeder: Who’s a Good Kitty?
Erosion is all around us, from the meandering course of rivers and other waterways, to the gradual carving out of channels in even the toughest mountains, and the softening of …read more Continue reading Leading Edge Erosion: When Precipitation Destroys Wind Turbine Blades
An interesting and also annoying aspect about the human immune system is that it is not a neat, centralized system where you input an antigen pattern in one spot and …read more Continue reading Intranasal Vaccines: A Potential Off-Ramp For Coronavirus Pandemics
Long after the enemy forces have laid down their arms, peace accords have been signed and victories celebrated, there is still a heavy toll to be paid. Most of this …read more Continue reading The Long Tail Of War: Finding Unexploded Ordnance Before It Finds Us