Steering light in a flash: New chip redirects light beams in less than a trillionth of a second

Light can carry enormous amounts of information at extreme speeds, making photonic technologies promising for the development of faster communications, more powerful computing systems and more ...
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Neural implant merges photovoltaics with custom analog, PPM encoding

Consider a neural implant dubbed the Microscale Optoelectronic Tetherless Electrode, or MOTE, developed at Cornell University ...
Hackaday

555 timer

Over on YouTube [Andrew Neal] has a Function Generator Build for Beginners. As beginner videos go this one is fairly comprehensive. [Andrew] shows us how to build a square-wave generator on a ...
Hackaday

How To Use Those Cute But Slightly Odd 7-Segment LCDs

If you’re not aware, there is such a thing as adorable little three digit LCD 7-segment displays. They come in a ten-pin DIP ...