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 ...

Temperature sensors are an important yet often overlooked part of a HomeKit setup. Even working as a passive tracking device, I want to add them to every room to understand more about what’s happening ...

Temperature tracking has long been one of my favorite aspects of HomeKit. Understanding how the temperature can vary in different parts of my house helped me decide where to use stand-alone fans and ...

Virtually every modern car on the road is equipped with bells, whistles, and sensors designed to let you know when even the slightest thing is wrong with your vehicle. While any driver can appreciate ...

Abstract: LabVIEW is a graphical programming language, used in many research fields for designing communication algorithms and simulating traditional as well as real time signals. Arduino kit can be ...

The Google Pixel smartphone series is no stranger to odd software and hardware additions. The double-sized notch and the short-lived Soli sensor stand out as some of Google’s more out-there ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An infrared thermometer seems like an odd thing to put on a $1,000 smartphone. An infrared thermometer seems like ...

The Pixel 8 Pro phone can double as a contactless thermometer in certain scenarios, thanks to its new temperature sensor. It's the first time Google has put a temperature sensor in a Pixel phone, and ...

The Pixel 8 Pro’s temperature sensor is only able to measure object temperatures now. Google says it’s working on getting it approved for human temperature sensing, but there’s no timeline for that.

Abstract: There are many problems in the verification of temperature sensors in Chinese automatic weather stations (AWTs), including poor efficiency and low degree of automation. The verification ...

Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, China; 2Department of Electronic Engineering, Jiangxi Vocational Technical College of Industrial Engineering, Pingxiang, ...