The magazine Popular Science dates back to 1872. It’s older than Nature (1879), Science (1880), and American Scientist (1913). It was originally an academic journal, before it split into two parts, with the academic portion eventually being absorbed into Science. It’s high quality scientific…
The Voltset devices plug into an Android phone and offer multimeter-type functions. The Mini Voltset measures voltage and continuity. The Mega Voltset adds resistance measurements.
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About a year ago Labrigger covered the Raspberry Pi, a single board computer. In some ways, it’s like a high-powered Arduino, but really, it’s a miniature PC. Albeit, a PC that uses an…
Autocorrelators can be used to measure the pulse width of ultrafast lasers. This can be useful for troubleshooting dispersion in your 2-photon imaging system and generally troubleshooting laser issues. They are big ticket items and…
Open Electronics has a nice overview and comparison of Linux Development boards like the Raspberry Pi.
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Carnegie Mellon is a magical place for robotics, and their CMUcam, an open source hardware project for machine vision, has recently culminated in Pixy. This is a wildly funded Kickstarter project (funded…
You just pay the impact factor right now for a subscription to Nature.
Converting them all into USD for comparison:
US: $38 (19% of the usual price)
Europe: $51 (18% of the usual price)
UK and…
4D Systems sells screens and touchscreens for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other systems. Importantly, the code is portable (mentioned in the video above), they have good support, and the hardware plugs right into the boards. It doesn’t get much easier than this. They have resellers…
This isn’t an advertisement. I wasn’t asked to post this. I just want to let you all know in case it’s useful. Newport is having a sale on optics and many of the discounts…
This is perhaps the most exhilarating patent I’ve ever read:
Search for patent 4455333 at this link.
Here’s a excerpt:
When the cookie dough enters the oven, the water in the dough is saturated with sugar and appears to be evenly distributed throughout the dough. As the water temperature…
