Shaping carbon fiber with electricity: Wireless voltage pulses drive reversible bending

Controlled manipulation of fibers that are as thin as or even thinner than human hair is a real challenge. Despite ...

Photonic integrated circuits enable programmable non-Abelian 'braiding' of light states

A research team has successfully implemented a programmable spinor lattice on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). This platform enables the realization of non-Abelian physics, in which the outcome of ...
CNX Software

Add a tiny desktop monitor to your PC with the ESP32 Desktop Monitor project

D0WD, a low-cost alternative to LilyGo T-Display, lets you mirror your desktop monitor over Wi-Fi with an ESP32 ...
Hackaday

Making A Functional Control Panel Of The Chernobyl RBMK Reactor

Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all ...
CNET

Best LED Light Bulbs for 2026: A Light for Every Room

Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and security technology for over a dozen years, explaining the latest features, privacy tricks, and top recommendations. With degrees ...

Engineers builds Arduino-led game console from a fidget clicker and I want to fidget with it so badly

Arduino test code is run to see if the sensors are working properly, with built-in LED flashing when the sensor is triggered, and turning off when the sensor is released. The testing of the keys ...
Hackaday

Real-Time 3D Room Mapping With ESP32, VL53L5CX Sensor And IMU

ST’s VL53L5CX is a very small 8×8 grid ranging sensor that can perform distance measurements at a distance of up to 4 meters. In a recent video,[Henrique Ferrolho] demonstrated that ...