Interesting Engineering

MIT’s 6 mW chip lets tiny drones see and map their surroundings in real time

New MIT chip enables tiny drones and robots to create detailed 3D maps while using minimal power.
Mercury News

Few roads out, higher wildfire risk: New study maps Bay Area evacuation danger

In scenic Alhambra Valley south of Martinez, where forest and grasslands surround large homes, wildfire risk is high, and for retired technology executive Kevin Lewis and his wife, there’s only one ...
GitHub

colout — Color Up Arbitrary Command Output

colout [-g] [-c] [-l min,max] [-a] [-t] [-T DIR] [-P DIR] [-d COLORMAP] [-s] [-e CHAR] [-E CHAR] [--debug] PATTERN [COLOR(S) [STYLE(S)]] If groups are specified in ...
Independent.ie

Home help: I’m intimidated by the idea of using colour, so how should I approach it in my home?

Darren Kennedy asks interior designer Róisín Lafferty for her tips on introducing colour to your space Interiors scheme by Róisín Lafferty. Photo: Barbara Corsico Interior designer Róisín Lafferty, ...
GitHub

A python library for bivariate glyphs integrated with matplotlib

This library allows the user to create visualizations using Visual Entropy Glyphs[1]. Vizent glyphs are designed to help when you need to add an extra data variable to a scatter plot, a map or a graph ...