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New chips: ESP32 and ATmega328PB

Some of my favorite small micro-controller platforms (as you might have seen if you have been reading this blog) are Arduino and ESP8266. It seems that there is going ot be some upgrades to those platforms this year. ESP32 ESP8266 chip is used to build  WiFi modules for serial-to-WiFi conversion and Internet of Things applications. ESP8266

Evaporation-Powered Motor

Could water evaporating provide power? Yes. Biological systems are known to convert energy generated from the evaporation of water confined within nanoscale compartments into muscle-like mechanical work. Researchers Create Evaporation-Powered Motor article tells that scientists designed shape-changing engineered composites of bacterial spores and a polymer that used an evaporation-driven process to power locomotion and generate electricity.