Interesting Engineering

New zinc battery stores 7x more energy, keeps 82% capacity after 1,500 cycles

UCLA researchers have developed a 3D-printed zinc-ion hybrid battery that stores 7 times more charge for cheaper grid energy ...
Tech Xplore

Team uses 3D printing to develop zinc-ion hybrid battery with seven times more energy

Storing solar and wind energy to meet the increasing power needs of the electrical grid calls for devices that can deliver ...
C&EN

Printing Double-Network Tough Hydrogels Using Temperature-Controlled Projection Stereolithography (TOPS)

Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13210, United States BioInspired Institute, Syracuse, New York 13210, United States ...
IEEE

Cloud-Integrated Smart Pet Feeder with Adaptive Feeding and Mobile App Control

Abstract: The fast development of IoT -based automation has revolutionized the process of pet care management, but the available feeders still lack flexibility, accurate portioning, and behavioral ...
CNX Software

SparkFun OpenScale IoT – An ESP32 board with HX711 ADC for smart scales with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity

The SparkFun OpenScale – IoT project is a ready-to-use ESP32-based IoT smart scale with open-source hardware and firmware support that makes it easy to read precise weight data from load cells without ...
GitHub

Arduino library for HX711 24 bit ADC used for load cells and scales.

This HX711 library has a public interface (API) which is a superset of the public interface of the HX711 library, version 0.7.3, by Bogde. The API is reused to be compatible on the basic interaction ...
SciELO

Fruit preservation packaging technology based on air adjustment packaging method

The natural interaction between two processes, the product's respiration and the passage of gases via the packaging, results in an environment poorer in O 2 and richer in CO 2. It depends on the ...
C&EN

At-Line Characterization of Droplet Size Distributions Using a Simple, Voltage-Based Sensor for Continuous Production of Dense Oil in Water Emulsions

Multiphase Reactors and Intensification Group Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick V94T9PX, Ireland ...
GitHub

Hariharan-Arul/smart_alarm_iot

A cloud based smart alarm clock using IoT sensors. This system aims to integrate various hardware and software components to provide an efficient and user-friendly alarm clock that leverages cloud ...
Frontiers

First clinical implementation of insertion force measurement in cochlear implantation surgery

The significance of atraumatic electrode array (EA) insertion in cochlear implant (CI) surgery is widely acknowledged, with consensus that forces due to EA insertion are directly correlated with ...
Nature

A portable articulated dynamometer for ankle dorsiflexion and plantar flexion strength measurement: a design, validation, and user experience study

Monitoring ankle strength is crucial for assessing daily activities, functional ability, and preventing lower extremity injuries. However, the current methods for measuring ankle strength are often ...
CNX Software

Build a LoRaWAN weighing scale with TTGO T-Weigh ESP32 board, HX711 modules

Ever wanted to build your own LoRaWAN connected weighing scale? Me neither, but apparently those types of products already exist for logistics and inventory management, and LilyGO’s latest ESP32 board ...