Hackaday

Arduino Hacks

Here’s something fun from [Chad Kapper] over on HackMakeMod: Escape Room Lockbox with the Cheap Yellow Display. You may have heard of the “cheap yellow display” (CYD), so-called due to the board’s ...
Hackaday

Arduino Hacks

Fans of D&D are surely aware of the significance of a good pair of dice. What if your dice were not only stylish, but smart? For anyone who’s ever had to deal with playing board games with less than ...
IEEE

First Experiment With an Altimeter With Knife-Like Beam: Comparison With a Model of the Waveform of a Reflected Impulse

Abstract: The altimeter is an effective instrument for remote sensing of the sea surface. Existing theoretical models of the waveform of the reflected impulse are used in the retracking algorithms for ...
Carnegie Institution for Science

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter: Experiment summary after the first year of global mapping of Mars

The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), an instrument on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, has measured the topography, surface roughness, and 1.064-mum reflectivity of Mars and the heights of ...