Your smoke alarm’s chirp can be oddly reassuring, a small sound that suggests everything is still working. Yet the device making that noise may already be too old to reliably sense a real fire. The ...

Your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors quietly decide how much time you have to escape a fire, yet the tiny date code that tells you whether they still work is easy to miss. That code is usually ...

A firefighter-built smoke detector uses silent strobe lights to help firefighters locate and rescue pets during house fires.

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 ...

The IM19 is used in conjunction with the UM980 GNSS receiver to provide tilt-compensated Lat/Lon/Alt readings with 1cm accuracy up to 30° tilt angle, and 2cm accuracy up to 60°. Various bits of the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's bright and blustery today with wind chills making it feel like only the upper 20s. MONDAY (MLK DAY): Bright and blustery for anyone outside participating in day of service ...

Abstract: A fire alarm system is mandatory for all nuclear and industrial establishments to protect the safety of the public, environment, and plant personnel from a plant fire and its potential ...

Arduino library for the ENS16x digital four channel MOX gas sensors with I2C/SPI interface from ScioSense. ENS16x is a range of digital multi-gas metal oxide (MOX) sensors, specifically designed for ...

Abstract: Vehicle over-speed detection and accident-avoidance system is an Internet of Things (IoT) based system which collects data via sensors such as ultrasonic sensors and alerts the driver. The ...