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Adjust 1602 LCD contrast easily with Arduino simple Arduino tutorial

In this video I'll be showing you how you can control the contrast and the back light brightness of a 1602 LCD display with just the Arduino. The contrast is typically adjusted with a variable ...
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Arduino heart rate monitor using Pro Mini PulseSensor and OLED for beginners

In this video I'm building an Arduino Heart Rate Monitor that is housed in a toy handle in the style of the Star Trek Tricoder. The device uses the PulseSensor with an Arduino Pro Mini and an OLED ...

In search of a room-temperature superconductor, scientists present a research agenda

The search for materials that can conduct electricity at room temperature without losing energy is one of the greatest and most consequential challenges of modern physics: loss-free power transmission ...
EDN

Newer, shinier DMM RTDs—part 1

A compensated Pt100 RTD circuit has 1 mV/°C DMM output, with linearization via positive feedback, pending Part 2 ...
Hackaday

Spoofing An Emergency Traffic Preemption Signal

There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general mayhem or ...
Hackaday

Building A Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside A Shed

Most people see that garden shed as little more than a place to store some gardening tools in, but if you’re like [Dr. Semiconductor], then what you see is a potential cleanroom for ...
IEEE

Enhancing Two-Area Interconnected Power Systems Using Model Predictive and PID Control Approaches

Abstract: This research represents a comparative study of Load Frequency Control (LFC) using Model Predictive Control (MPC). The results have also been compared with Proportional-Integral-Derivative ...