Collaborate Disseminate
Imagine touching the armrest of your sofa to change the channel on your television, or pressing against a lightbulb stencil on the wall to turn on your smart light – these functions and many more like them are now possible thanks to research from a tea… Continue reading Sprayable sensors make any surface interactive
For his final project in UCLA’s Physics 4AL program, [Timothy Kanarsky] used a NodeMCU to smarten up a carefully dissected NERF football. With the addition to dual MPU6050 digital accelerometers and some math, the ball can calculate things like the distance traveled and angular velocity. With a 9 V alkaline …read more
Continue reading ESP8266 and Sensors Make for a Brainy NERF Ball
Computers can already boast superhuman sensory abilities in sight and hearing, but smell has been much more difficult. The human nose isn’t a particularly good one compared to the rest of the animal kingdom, but it’s still a complex piece of machinery,… Continue reading Intel’s neuromorphic Loihi chip is rapidly learning to discern smells
When we pick up an object, we can adjust our grip if that object proves to be a slippery customer and we can use a combination of senses to determine if an object needs a delicate touch. ETH researchers have developed a sensor that could help robot gri… Continue reading Sensor skin could give robot grippers a delicate touch
There is a large disparity between the survival rates of prematurely born babies in the developing world and those in the developed world, but scientists at Northwestern University are working on ways to bridge the gap. This has led to the development … Continue reading Wireless sensors to track premature baby health in the developing world
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have found that they can trick the autopilot on an autonomous car to erroneously apply its brakes in response to “phantom” images projected on … Continue reading Researchers trick autonomous car autopilot with phantom images
Home automation is a popular project to undertake but its complexity can quickly become daunting, especially if you go further than controlling a few lights (or if you’re a renter). To test the waters you may want to start with something like this home safety monitor, which is an IoT …read more
The ability to get professionally manufactured PCBs, at least small ones, for dirt cheap has had a huge impact on the sort of projects we see around these parts. It’s getting to the point where experimenting with PCB enclosures is not only a way to make your next project stand …read more
[Umar Qattan] is in tune with his sole and is trying hard to listen to what it has to say.
At a low level, [Umar] is building an insole with an array of force sensors in it. These sensors are affixed to a flexible PCB which is placed in a …read more
Continue reading Listen to your Feet, They Have a Lot to Tell You
We caught up with Shah Selbe and Jacob Lewallen the morning after their project, FieldKit, won the Hackaday Prize. FieldKit is an open-source field-based research data collection platform. Which is basically a lot of fancy words for saying it’s a system for collecting sensor data in the field without being …read more
Continue reading Interview: FieldKit Team the Morning After Winning the 2019 Hackaday Prize