[Andrew Lamchenko], who has built a number of small e-ink-based sensors this year, released another design called the eON Indoor Air Quality Sensor. As his previous sensor designs, the eON boasts a ...

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 ...

Is your heaving pile of electronic parts shrinking by the day as you finish old back-burnered projects and come up with new ones? Try an old pastime that never gets old: rolling your own sensors using ...

Here is the circuit diagram of a simple steam sensor, wired around a handful of inexpensive components. This steam sensor can be connected to a microcontroller’s I/O port directly. The steam sensor ...

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 ...

German engineer Gaurav Singh has designed and built an industrial USB box camera in a custom 3D-printed case that not only accepts interchangeable lenses, but the image sensor can also be swapped out ...

June 29, 2017 — On a warm May evening in the southern German town of Stuttgart, citizen scientists gather in the basement of the city library with laptops on their desks and sparkling water by their ...

Dr. Kofi Amegah of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, installing a small air sensing unit built by the University of Massachusetts. Kofi Amegah Until recently, measuring air pollution was a task ...

This article was taken from the May 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

Turbidity is an internationally recognized criterion for assessing drinking water quality, and a Turbidity Meter is an optoelectronic instrument that assesses turbidity by measuring the scattering of ...

Until recently, measuring air pollution was a task that could be performed only by trained scientists using very sophisticated – and very expensive – equipment. That has changed with the rapid growth ...