Posts by Ibrar Ayyub:
Bionic plants: Synthetic nanoparticles enhance photosynthetic activity of plants
Posted on: 16 Mar 2014
Plants have many valuable functions: They provide food and fuel, release the oxygen that we breathe, and add beauty to our surroundings. Now, a team of MIT researchers wants to make plants even more useful by augmenting them with nanomaterials that could enhance their energy production and give them completely new functions, such as monitoring environmental pollutants.
Memory media and data communication without limitations
Posted on: 16 Mar 2014
From now, it´s even more probable to find the right connector for your application in our store. After success of so far types of connectors for memory cards and SIM cards, we add to our stock offer many other types of connectors for SIM cards, SD cards, micro SD cards, CF cards, E-SAT, DDR […]
New report finds people willing to share personal health data with researchers, companies
Posted on: 14 Mar 2014
A new report from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, suggests that many people who track health-related data with wearable devices and smartphone apps are interested in sharing that data with researchers in medical and public health—provided adequate privacy controls exist.
OBDCAN Shield for Arduino
Posted on: 14 Mar 2014
Overview The Arduino OBDCAN Shield connects Arduino board to CAN OBD-II compliant car, light truck, or motorcycle. ISO15765-4 (CAN) protocol Arduino R3 form factor Stacking headers for expansion and connection to LCD Joystick control for menu navigation Provides operating voltage for the Arduino board from OBD connector Serial port operating voltage either 3.3V or 5V, […]
Simple 3D gerber viewer
Posted on: 13 Mar 2014
Over the course of the last 5 months I developped an application to visualize Gerber data. The goal was primarily to review Gerber files before sending them to a PCB fabrication house. It is very similar to the Mayhew Labs online Gerber viewer, except it’s offline (and has a few different features). My tool is […]
NXP launches new angular sensor compliant with SENT standard
Posted on: 12 Mar 2014
NXP Semiconductors today announced the release of the KMA215, a programmable angle sensor with digital output, which is compliant with the most recent Single Edge Nibble Transmission (SAE J2716 JAN2010 SENT) standard. The KMA215 is also prepared for the future, already supporting 12bit High-Speed transmission with doubled frame rate, which is under consideration for future SENT releases.
Bootload an Arduino with a ZIF Socket
Posted on: 12 Mar 2014
Bootloading an Arduino with a ZIF socket allows you to easily program a lot of chips at once without worrying about mangling the pins. The reason for this is that ZIF stands for “zero insertion force,” and as the name implies, ZIF sockets don’t require any force to take the chip in or out. This […]
Intro to Arduino
Posted on: 11 Mar 2014
An Arduino is an open-source microcontroller development board. In plain English, you can use the Arduino to read sensors and control things like motors and lights. This allows you to upload programs to this board which can then interact with things in the real world. With this, you can make devices which respond and react […]
Natural selection has altered the appearance of Europeans over the past 5,000 years
Posted on: 10 Mar 2014
Anthropologists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and geneticists at University College London, working in collaboration with archaeologists from Berlin and Kiev, have analyzed ancient DNA from skeletons and found that selection has had a significant effect on the human genome even in the past 5,000 years, resulting in sustained changes to the appearance of people.
Desk Panic Button
Posted on: 10 Mar 2014
When I was a kid my father had a panic button under his desk that was wired to call 911. While I thought this was pretty cool at the time, it later occurred to me that he had this because the neighborhood that his business was located in was a bit rough, and — perhaps […]
