Miroslav Hancar] wasn’t satisfied with abusing just a single component for our Component Abuse Challenge. He decided to abuse ...

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

Nuclear power plants provide 20% of the nation's energy. To ensure they remain functional and safe to operate, plant ...

Real-time environmental monitoring is increasingly important in agriculture, industrial automation, smart homes, and healthcare. The real-time data monitoring ...

This tiny chip can withstand temperatures up to 1,500 degrees and could one day sit inside the core of a nuclear reactor, delivering critical real-time data.

The team had a vision to use monitored turtle temperature data as an interactive instructional tool for biology classrooms. Within the project, the students selected and attached a wireless ...

National Weather Service (NWS) officials have issued high rip current risk warnings for large sections of the Florida coastline on Friday, advising more than 3 million residents and visitors to avoid ...

A new Indiegogo campaign has appeared to help you monitor your food’s temperature when you microwave it. Called Cmicro, the device consists of a little puck (the actual sensor), a number of different ...

This project is to prototype a set of self-powered (such as piezoelectric, thermostat, solar, etc) embedded sensor systems for pervasive computing. A tangible exam is a body-temperature powered motion ...

During the course of this project students will adapt Prima-Temp’s PT Sensor, an innovative thermometry device that continuously measures core body temperature, to make it into a low-cost, easy-to-use ...