| The frequency of the mains voltage is a good indicator of the grid’s load. This grid frequency meter not only monitors this important parame...
| The frequency of the mains voltage is a good indicator of the grid’s load. This grid frequency meter not only monitors this important parame...
| Lars Krüger is a Potsdam, Germany-based teacher who has been reading Elektor magazine for eight years and designing electric bicycles since...
| With the compliments of the Elektor Labs and Editorial teams, here comes another ‘fresh’ article that's free to download by all registered E...
| Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables and other electronic devices are powered without batteries... Too good to be true? Res...
| Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories (USA) have developed a small device, based on silicon, that can use waste heat to generate DC...
| A discovery by researchers from Berkeley University in California may, in the near future, offer the potential to build windows that automat...
| The differences in measurable potential on plants aroused the interest of Walter Polleros. His BioLight project detects electrical fluctuati...
| The advent of the Internet of Things has also boosted research into alternative energy sources which allow energy to be converted into elect...
| It’s notoriously hard to predict when a new technology will take off to disrupt the status quo. In 1943 Thomas Watson, CEO of IBM at the tim...
| Good news: researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a fabric capable of harvesting energy from both sunshine and motion...