GM wants to bring back the two-stroke engine

I wouldn't count on this singular patent bringing that ring-ding-ding sound to your local parking lot any time soon.
Electronic Design

Alternating Control and Optimizing Bandwidth in Buck-Boost Circuits

H-bridge buck-boost ICs are widely used in applications requiring a constant voltage or current source even when the system ...
eLife

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain

This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (statedependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level.
New Atlas

Lockheed Martin drone makes mission-saving decisions on its own

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works has shown how combat drones can think on the fly with a demonstration of its AI-Driven Mission ...
eLife

Continuous flashing suppression of V1 responses and the perceptual consequences revealed via two-photon calcium imaging and transformer modeling

Two-photon imaging and ocular dominance mapping. A. Optical windows for imaging of two macaques. Green crosses indicate the regions for viral vector injections, and yell ...
Hackaday

PCB Design Review: TinySparrow, A Module For CAN Hacking, V2

A year ago, I’ve design reviewed an MCU module for CAN hacking, called TinySparrow. Modules are plenty cool, and even more so when they’re intended for remaking car ECUs. For a while ...
IEEE

Integrated Adaptive Repetitive Learning Control of Linear Motor Servo Systems With Periodic Tasks

Abstract: Periodic repetitive tasks are common in industrial production, especially in intelligent equipment for batch processing. This paper studies the disturbance suppression problem of linear ...