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“DIY Laser Guy,” Drake Anthony, whose YouTube channel includes a plethora of homemade laser creations, recently unveiled his newest: a laser shotgun comprised of 5W-laser beams, totaling 40 watts of power.

Mouser Electronics is now stocking LUXEON CoB Compact Range LEDsfrom Lumileds. These LEDs offer high flux densities in a very small light emitting surface (LES), which provides good center beam candle power (CBCP).

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Mouser Electronics is now stocking the iCE40 UltraLite FPGAs from Lattice Semiconductor. Part of Lattice's successful iCE40 Ultra™ product family, the iCE40 UltraLite devices are one of the industry's smallest and lowest power field…

University of California, Santa Barbara researchers are using the common wireless signal to count the number of people in a designated space without relying on them to carry personal devices.

You would never think about pouring a glass of water onto your computer, right? Well, Stanford engineers have. Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford, and his students have built a synchronous computer that…

Engineer Jason Poel Smith walks us through a step-by-step guide to creating a motion sensing alarm that can be disables with a resistor. Smith's fun DIY alarm detects when someone enters a specific area. If a trespasser is detected a…

Although scientists are increasingly using pint-size satellites sometimes no larger than a loaf of bread to gather data from low-Earth orbit, they have yet to apply the less-expensive small-satellite technology to observe physical phenomena…

Mission Control recognizes a half century of human spaceflight leadership from Houston on June 3, as it continues to support 24/7/365 operations in support of the International Space Station and prepares for the future of human exploration…

Neoconix has just announced immediate availability of its new X-Beam™ family of electrical connectors. Featuring an ultra-low-profile form factor and a simplified SMT assembly process, the X-Beam product family is the latest Neoconix…