Thursday, February 12, 2015

Search and Rescue Drones Wins $1Million Prize




The Gimball is quite remarkable. It has two rotors and its outer frame rotates independently of the drone inside. It smashes into obstacles as a way to navigate, similar to the behavior of insects. With a GPS destination it will roll along walls and bounce off ceilings as it finds its way.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

A camera flash will make the Raspberry Pi 2 freeze and reboot


Unfortunately for Raspberry Pi 2 owners who are trying to photograph their devices, however, the Raspberry Pi 2 has been found to be Xenon flash sensitive. Or as the initial person who reported it on the Raspberry Pi forums called it: 'camera shy.' Any camera with a Xenon flash aimed at the device is causing the device to freeze for a few seconds before rebooting. It's worth mentioning that an LED flash would not cause this phenomenon to happen - it has to be a Xenon flash.

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Scientists Invent A New Steel As Strong As Titanium



Bend, Don't Break

The key to creating this new super-steel was overcoming a challenge that had plagued materials scientists for decades. In the 1970's, Soviet researchers discovered that adding aluminum to the mix when creating steel can make an incredibly strong and lightweight metal, but this new steel was unavoidably brittle. You'd have to exert lots of force to reach the limit of its strength, but once you did, the steel would break rather than bend.


Read more here.