Motion detectors are useful smart home devices for creating simple automations, such as turning on your lights when you enter ...

[mircemk] shows how to create a simple non-contact proximity sensor using little more than an Arduino Nano board, and a convenient software library intended to measure the value of capacitors. The ...

Usually, when you need to sense something in a project, the answers are straightforward. Want to sense air temperature? There’s a sensor for that. Particulate content in the air? There’s a sensor for ...

Smart home devices are only as useful as their ability to detect what's happening around them. I spent years just using voice ...

Avoiding the deluge of data created by the deployment of too many sensors requires a more considered approach to sensor selection and integration. Ideally, sensors should deliver just enough ...

Helium leaks are hard to detect. Helium is odorless, colorless, tasteless, and does not react with other chemical substances.

New types of sensors can generate environmental data in real time using a range of tools, including flexible, printed ICs and ...

With the Summer Olympics coming up soon in Paris, the buzz around the event is already starting to accelerate. Since the FIFA Women’s World Cup, we’re much more aware of how technology, specifically ...

Wuthering Waves, like many gacha RPG’s before it, has a lot of different systems and mechanics for players to get used to. One of these is our Utility Tools, which are useful bits of kit to help us ...