About: Ibrar Ayyub

Bad bacteria could soon have no place left to hide, thanks to new materials that turn the cell’s own defenses against them. Scientists at The University of Nottingham and GSK Consumer Healthcare have developed a technique that could locate the potential source of an infection by hijacking the normal processes of pathogens, thus revealing their location

PORTLAND, Ore. — IBM Research of Zurich is clearing the way for a “new generation of transistor” circuitry based on semiconducting nanowires whose tiny size imparts extraordinary properties not possible with standard bulk materials. The research lab’s latest innovation, accomplished with Norwegian University of Science and Technology, is a novel technique of mechanically straining gallium […]

Today we present an overview of today’s market offering regarding ARM RISC microcomputer able to run a GNU/Linux distribution. And once again, this is just the beginning. While the growth of such a device segment was predictable, it wasn’t easy to predict such an explosion. In fact we now have an heterogeneous set of options, […]

The Logic Pirate is an inexpensive yet capable open source logic analyzer. For just 30 bucks it can sample 8 channels, 256K samples per channel, at a blazing (overclocked!) 60 MILLION samples per second! It’s designed to support the SUMP logic analyzer protocol on Jawi’s open source software that works on most platforms. More than […]

The TS3310 is a low power boost converter with an industry-leading low quiescent current of 150nA, enabling ultra long battery life in systems operating from a variety of battery sources. The TS3310 is the industry’s only boost converter to specify its no-load supply current with an actively switching boost engine, providing a more accurate picture […]

(Phys.org) —Physicists Joseph Silk of Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris and Jens Chluba of Johns Hopkins University have together published a Perspective piece in the journal Science, where they discuss the future of cosmological research in the wake of the detection two month ago, of primordial gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). They suggest several possibilities and detail the pros and cons of each.

This is pretty much one of those required projects; everyone builds a datalogger in an Altoids can.  But each is different and I enjoyed making mine. Features: Uses ATmega328P (low power, 32K flash for lots of program space) Uses Maxim/Dallas DS1337 Real Time Clock (uses I2C) Logs data to microSD flash card, readable on PC […]

One day I was sitting behind my desk at work and I got that weird need to build something, after looking around for a bit I got my eye on an LED matrix and that sparked an idea in my head : “I WANNA MAKE A TAMAGOTCHI”. So for those of you that don’t know […]

Here is a small collection of circuits that provide an interface to sensor transducers including pressure, temperature, and others. ere’s a resistance temperature detector (RTD) interface circuit that is compatible with a range of standard RTD sensors including PT100. Output is digital via SPI bus. This circuit provides a highly integrated analog sensor signal conditioner […]

The University of Texas at San Antonio announced today that the Cloud and BigData Laboratory in the UTSA College of Sciences is launching one of the largest Open Clouds in academia with initial 6600 COREs utilizing OpenStack software, co-founded by Rackspace, and Open Compute hardware, founded by Facebook, to support advanced computing and big data analytics research.