Author: AlHasan Muhammad Ali
Affordable DNA Detection Using A Smartphone
Researchers at UCLA have developed an improved method to detect the presence of DNA biomarkers of disease that is compatible with use outside of a hospital or lab setting. The new technique leverages the sensors and optics of cellphones to read light produced by a new detector dye...
Continue ReadingArduino Primo With Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi, and Infrared
Thanks to a partnership with Nordic Semiconductor - the world's most successful open-source ecosystem for education, Maker, and Internet of Things (IoT) markets -, Arduino announced its new board, Arduino Primo, including native Bluetooth Low Energy wireless connectivity and NFC...
Continue ReadingULINKplus, A Debug Adapter With Power Measurment
While building an ultra-low power application, sensitive hardware and software validation is required to reach system and long battery life. Testing will need an interaction with the tested parts, like simulating input pins of the target application. These difficulties could be solved...
Continue ReadingZeroPhone, A Raspberry Pi-Based Open Source Smartphone
Raspberry Pi is one of the most helpful innovations in the hardware industry. It has helped beginners and children learn programming and allowed the makers to develop powerful and cheap DIY projects. "ZeroPhone" is a new DIY smartphone that is built based on Raspberry Pi and cost about...
Continue ReadingPaperino, The ePaper Display Shield
ePaper displays (EPDs) are becoming a trend in application, just like the display used in Amazon Kindle, for their low power consumption due to the to the underlying ‘bistable’ display technology. These displays can continue to show information without any power at all. It is...
Continue ReadingPrinted Two-Dimensional Transistors
Researchers from AMBER (Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research) and Trinity College (Dublin), together with the TU Delft have succeeded in producing printed transistors, which are made solely from two-dimensional nano materials. These materials have characteristics with...
Continue ReadingOn-Chip Microwave Laser
Lasers are everywhere these days: at the checkout in the supermarket, in the CD player in the lounge – and quantum researchers need them to test qubits in the (future) quantum computers. For most applications, today's large, inefficient lasers are a perfectly adequate solution, but...
Continue ReadingARM CoreSight SoC-600, The Future of Debug
Debugging is an important part of the design process that is necessary to identify and fix errors. Over the decades, debug tools had evolved providing easier and simpler solutions. Today, ARM introduces CoreSight SoC-600 as the next-generation debug and trace tool that speeds up...
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