Earlier this year, Ikea updated its Dirigera hub to become a Matter controller, allowing Matter devices from other companies ...

The rise of “sensors everywhere” is a precursor to accumulating large quantities of sensor profiles needed for effective ...

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

In a new paper published in Nature Photonics, researchers at Columbia Engineering have discovered that the thin-film metallic resistor routinely used to thermally tune photonic devices to the desired ...

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive method for detecting hotspots in the environment, such as bushfires or military ...

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Abstract: This paper highlights the effectiveness of photo-thermal plasmonic sensors in enabling real-time closed-loop stabilization of photonic devices. To assess the waveguided optical power, the in ...

Discover how EMG sensors turn muscle signals into digital inputs for innovative projects. Learn setup tips, challenges, and ...

Real-time environmental monitoring is increasingly important in agriculture, industrial automation, smart homes, and healthcare. The real-time data monitoring ...

A basic Arduino board adds creativity, flexibility, and interactivity to your home lab. It costs little but opens countless ...

TinyML is an incredibly powerful piece of software, and you can easily train your own model and deploy it on an ESP32.

Abstract: The applications of real-time thermal models (RTTMs) to sensorless temperature monitoring are limited due to unknown initial temperatures. To address this issue, this article proposes a ...