Hackaday

Building A Heading Sensor Resistant To Magnetic Disturbances

Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer [Don Welch] recreated a heading indicator of his own, using cheap ...
IEEE

Compound Scaling Encoder-Decoder (CoSED) Network for Diabetic Retinopathy Related Bio-Marker Detection

Abstract: Biomedical image segmentation plays an important role in Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)-related biomarker detection. DR is an ocular disease that affects the retina in people with diabetes and ...
GitHub

Hardware Quadrature Signal Mixer – Enables No-Overhead Direct Axis Position Feedback for Closed-Loop Differential Drive Kinematics (Core XY, Robot wrist / ankle joints, etc.)

Your CoreXY doesn't have to compromise on accuracy, nor speed! Mount linear encoders on the physical X/Y axes, mix signals in pure hardware, and feed perfect motor-domain A/B feedback to your ...
IEEE

A Multi-Scale Contrast Preserving Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Local Change Detection From Thermal Video Scenes

Abstract: This article presents a new deep-learning architecture based on an encoder-decoder framework that retains contrast while performing background subtraction (BS) on thermal videos. The ...
eLife

Intravital calcium imaging of meningeal macrophages reveals niche-specific dynamics and aberrant responses to brain hyperexcitability

This valuable study presents a technically sophisticated intravital two-photon calcium imaging approach to characterize Ca²⁺ dynamics in distinct populations of meningeal macrophages in awake, freely ...
GitHub

LLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders

LLM2Vec is a simple recipe to convert decoder-only LLMs into text encoders. It consists of 3 simple steps: 1) enabling bidirectional attention, 2) training with masked next token prediction, and 3) ...