Op-Amp Contest: Virtual Ball-in-a-Box Responds to Your Motions

A set of solderless breadboards with op amps and their functions annotated

With the incredible variety of projects submitted to our Op-Amp Contest, you’d almost forget that operational amplifiers were originally invented to perform mathematical operations, specifically inside analog computers. One popular …read more Continue reading Op-Amp Contest: Virtual Ball-in-a-Box Responds to Your Motions

Water Level Sensor Does Not Use Water Level Sensor

When interfacing with the real world, there are all kinds of sensors available which will readily communicate with your microcontroller of choice. Moisture, pH, humidity, temperature, location, light, and essentially …read more Continue reading Water Level Sensor Does Not Use Water Level Sensor

TapType: AI-Assisted Hand Motion Tracking Using Only Accelerometers

The team from the Sensing, Interaction & Perception Lab at ETH Zürich, Switzerland have come up with TapType, an interesting text input method that relies purely on a pair of …read more Continue reading TapType: AI-Assisted Hand Motion Tracking Using Only Accelerometers