Author: AlHasan Muhammad Ali
SYNTHETIC SENSORS, All-In-One Smart Home Sensor
In the era of Internet of Things, we wanted most of our home appliances to become smart. But currently, smart devices may cost much more than their offline counterparts and they often do not communicate with each other. Trying to overcome these limitations, A Ph.D student invented a way...
Continue ReadingEAGLE Autorouter, When & How To Use
Designing a PCB layout is a work of engineering art, includes placing components and routing them through different layers. So when you assign the same job for different engineers, each one would make it in his own way. But sometimes when working on a complex design some help may be...
Continue ReadingOpen-V, The Open Source RISC-V 32bit Microcontroller
Open source has finally arrived to microcontrollers. Based on RISC-V instruction set, a group of doctoral students at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia have been working on an open source 32-bit chip called "Open-V". Onchip, the startup of the research team,...
Continue ReadingIntel Optane, Intel’s Next-Generation SSD Technology
In July 2015, Intel and Micron Technology announced a new technology for memory and storage solutions called "3D XPoint™ technology". It is a new category of nonvolatile memory that addresses the need for high-performance, high-endurance, and high-capacity memory and...
Continue ReadingArtificial Magnetic Fields For Photons
Photons became a hot research topic due to their important role in holding data across long distances. Starting from the fact that photons are insensitive to magnetic fields which concludes to their disability to process data, a group of researchers from the ETH (Eidgenössische...
Continue ReadingXOD, Visual Coding For Microcontrollers
XOD is a new visual programming language for microcontrollers launched now. Pronounced [ksəud], this programming language idea was inspired by vvvv, a hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development which is designed to facilitate the...
Continue ReadingControl Your Raspberry Pi Remotely
Sometimes while building a Raspberry Pi based project, it may be difficult to connect a screen, mouse and keyboard each time you want to edit something. If the Raspberry Pi is connected to a network, then running a remote desktop on it could be a good solution. Remote Desktop...
Continue ReadingTRINUS The Affordable 2-in-1 3D Printer
Starting from the fact that most 3D printers under $500 experience technical failures after just few uses, a new powerful 3D printer has been launched to bridge the gap between affordability and professionalism, Trinus! Trinus can be your 3D printer in a moment and your laser...
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