Tesla researcher Troy Teslike on Sunday reflected on the recent accident where a Cybertruck reportedly collided with a light pole when full self-driving driver assistance technology was deployed.

Pictured above is the sensor portion of what [Frapedia] calls his visual rain sensor. Most rain gauges just use a graduated cylinder to capture water as it falls from the sky. That will give you a ...

Today I fix that by digging into the detector’s datasheet, and taking a quick trip to the dollar store buy a suitable housing. The result? A plastic plant that dances when it’s going to rain!

The sensor has a dielectric polymer layer that absorbs ... The self-emptying tipping bucket technology is most often used for rain gauges in weather stations. The 8-inch collection area offers ...