Engineers improve infrared devices using century-old materials

After decades of intense research, surprises in the realm of semiconductors—materials used in microchips to control ...

YouTuber Designs Cooling System for 1.5 kW LED, Creates Small Artificial Sun

If you happen to be in the market for a small artificial sun, you may be interested to know that for about $1300, you can get a tennis-ball-sized LED array that outputs 120,000 lumens.
XDA Developers on MSN

5 ESP32 projects that turned out more useful than any store-bought smart device

Local-first wins.
Hackaday

Building A Heading Sensor Resistant To Magnetic Disturbances

Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer [Don Welch] recreated a heading indicator of his own, using cheap ...
Tech Xplore

Brain-like chips and LIDAR sensors may enable safer human-robot teamwork

Robotics technology that not only performs simple tasks but also supports humans in all their tasks is among the key technologies in industrial manufacturing. But this requires that robots be able to ...
Inside Unmanned Systems

Army Optics R&D Aims To Extend UAS Reach, Cut Sensor Costs

The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command C5ISR Center is pushing a new generation of unmanned aircraft sensor payloads that promise higher-resolu ...
IEEE

Robust Slip Detection Using Magnetic Tactile Sensors During Dynamic Robotic Manipulation via Stray Magnetic Fields Compensation

Abstract: Stable object grasping is essential in robot manipulation, but unexpected slippage is a major cause of task failure. Magnetic tactile sensors are promising for slip detection due to their ...