18190020
submission
Csiko writes:
The ingredients in this do-it-yourself christmas project are a gyroscope built of a felt pen, a bunch of old CDs, an embedded microcontroller (MCU), some LEDs and a big portion of nerdism. While the gyroscope spins, the MCU controls the LEDs so that a writing appears in realtime. Nice project, but it definitely needs a nerd girlfried to appreciate that.
17829810
submission
Csiko writes:
Researchers at Boston University's department of cognitive and neural systems work on an artificial brain implemented with Memristors. A Memristor is a new class of electronic device that completes the two-terminal passive elements resistor, capacitor and inductor. Also theoretically described, solid state versions of memristors have not been implemented until recently.
Now researchers in Boston claim that memristors are the new key technology to implement highly integreated powerful artificial brains on cheap and widely available hardware within five years.
16547512
submission
Csiko writes:
The European union has banned by law trading of incandescent light bulbs due to their bad efficiency/ecology reasons (most of the energy is transformed into heat). A company is now trying to bypass this by offering their incandescent light bulb products as a heating device instead of a light device. Still, their "heat balls" give light as well as heating. So — every law can be bypassed if you have some creativity!
