Watch Rare Footage of the Mysterious ‘Type D’ Orca
A NOAA expedition filmed the orcas, which have distinctive small white eye patches, off of Cape Horn, Chile. Continue reading Watch Rare Footage of the Mysterious ‘Type D’ Orca
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These Amazing Photos Show the First Rover Landing on an Asteroid
Hayabusa2 is the first mission to deploy mobile robots onto an asteroid. Continue reading These Amazing Photos Show the First Rover Landing on an Asteroid
G Data on Android malware sample numbers
Christian Lueg for G Data: Some 343 new Android malware samples every hour in 2017.
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Fully-functional Oscilloscope on a PIC
When troubleshooting circuits it’s handy to have an oscilloscope around, but often we aren’t in a lab setting with all of our fancy, expensive tools at our disposal. Luckily the price of some basic oscilloscopes has dropped considerably in the past several years, but if you want to roll out your own solution to the “portable oscilloscope” problem the electrical engineering students at Cornell produced an oscilloscope that only needs a few knobs, a PIC, and a small TV.
[Junpeng] and [Kevin] are taking their design class, and built this prototype to be inexpensive and portable while still maintaining a …read more
LEGO Looper Makes Modular Music
This LEGO synth made by [Rare Beasts] had us grinning from ear to ear.
It combines elements from LEGO Mindstorms with regular blocks in order to make music with color. A different music sample is assigned to each of five colors: red, blue, green, yellow, and white. The blocks are attached to spokes coming off of a wheel made with NXT. As the wheel turns, the blocks pass in front of a fixed color sensor that reads the color and plays the corresponding sample. The samples are different lengths, so changing the speed of the wheel makes for some interesting …read more
