No one likes a flickering light source, but lighting is often dependent on the quality of a building’s main AC power. Light intensity has a close relation to the supply voltage, but bulb type plays a ...

In Thailand, smoke pollution caused by slash-and-burn agriculture has become a serious social problem, but many people cannot afford to purchase an air quality sensor that costs more than tens of ...

Building a camera sensor from scratch is no small feat. This project explores how light can be captured and turned into ...

A camera’s image sensor is one of the most important pieces of tech to capture images. It’s the small element deep inside your camera that converts light waves into electronic signals that actually ...

Air quality in urban areas can be horrendous. For instance, in New York and Los Angeles the air quality is consistently below federal safety levels. So, how do you know how good/bad the air in your ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Whisker Labs, which is bringing next generation total home intelligence technologies to market, today announced that its DIY Home Energy Monitoring Sensor has ...

A low-cost (~$100), do-it-yourself (DIY) ultrasonic water level sensor/datalogger has been designed, constructed, and tested for use in education, citizen/community science, and research settings. The ...

DIY computer company Kano has released another brightly-coloured addition to its learn-to-code arsenal: a motion sensor kit. The standalone product comes with the Kano App to teach would-be coders how ...