Miroslav Hancar] wasn’t satisfied with abusing just a single component for our Component Abuse Challenge. He decided to abuse ...

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 ...

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

The team had a vision to use monitored turtle temperature data as an interactive instructional tool for biology classrooms. Within the project, the students selected and attached a wireless ...

During the course of this project students will adapt Prima-Temp’s PT Sensor, an innovative thermometry device that continuously measures core body temperature, to make it into a low-cost, easy-to-use ...

This project is to prototype a set of self-powered (such as piezoelectric, thermostat, solar, etc) embedded sensor systems for pervasive computing. A tangible exam is a body-temperature powered motion ...

This tiny chip can withstand temperatures up to 1,500 degrees and could one day sit inside the core of a nuclear reactor, delivering critical real-time data.

A new Indiegogo campaign has appeared to help you monitor your food’s temperature when you microwave it. Called Cmicro, the device consists of a little puck (the actual sensor), a number of different ...

The Pharmaceutical Technologies group has recently acquired a fibre optic temperature sensor from INFAP GmbH (München, Germany). Until now, the calibration of the TVIS response (i.e. the peak ...