For the latest NAWR ANOIS concert, we welcomed Analog On and Andrew Leslie Hooker to Swansea for some modular synths and no input mixing magic sounds.Check out the photos of the concert here.
Researchers at the University of Manchester have created a 3 layer material that can camoflauge thermal heat when an electric current is applied to it. It sounds much better than Arnie's mud version!
In 2014, Facebook launched a high altitiude platform station (HAPS) project called Aquilla, aimed at developing a high altitute glider drone that can transmit internet to remote areas.In a recent blog post, Facebook confirms that they are no longer developing Aquilla but will contine to work with partners like Airbus on HAPS connectivity in general.
This interesting article on Hackernoon from Preethi Kasireddy describes the current limitations on scaling blockchain and describes many different solutions and methods that could be used to allow scaling, such as SegWit, Sharding, increasing block size and off chain state channels, among others.
Anthony DiPilato made a homemade iPhone remote controller electric tug for his Cessna 310. The tug can pull the 2,268kg Cessna using two 13 inch motors and two 12V power chair batteries.
Google have launched a new Introduction to AR & ARCore course on Coursera. The course covers AR tools and platforms, popular use cases for AR and how to create realistic AR experiences.
Intercom have released a new book called The Growth Handbook, aimed at delivering industry tested advice on how to manage customer retention, growth experiments and driving word of mouth growth.
R2D3 have created a fantastic data visualisation describing how data models can be tuned to avoid over-emphases on biases of variances during the training phases.
