These Tiny Robots Can Swarm, Adapt, and Heal Themselves

Scientists designed microrobots that use sound to swarm, adapt, and heal themselves — working together like a living organism ...
Hackaday

Making A 2-Transistor AM Radio With A Philips Electronic Engineer EE8 Kit From 1966

Back in 1966, a suitable toy for a geeky kid was a radio kit. You could find simple crystal radio sets or some more advanced ...
Hackaday

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: An LED As A Light Dependent Capacitor

The function of an LED is to emit light when the device is forward biased within its operating range, and it’s known by most ...
C&EN

Chemical reactions set soft materials in motion

Before life evolved nerves and humans built electric circuits, motion arose with chemistry. In the earliest organisms, waves ...
IEEE

Building a simple oscillator based Ising machine for research and education

Abstract: Oscillator based Ising machines are non-von-Neumann machines ideally suited for solving combinatorial problems otherwise intractable on classic stored-program digital computers due to their ...
IEEE

Analysis of Single Event Effects in Clock and Data Recovery Circuits based on an LC Voltage Controlled Oscillator

Abstract: The LC Voltage Controlled Osculator (VCO)-based clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit has been widely utilized in high-speed applications. While significant research has advanced the ...