Derek Molloy DCU

4-panel comic. (1) [Person with white hat talking to another person.] PERSON 1 with white hat: As Sherlock Holmes said, When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (2) PERSON 2: What about the possibility that you forgot to eliminate a possibility? Or that you eliminated one incorrectly? Both of those remain, too. (3) PERSON 1: You’re being pedantic. It’s just a general rule for deduction. PERSON 2: But it’s a *bad rule*. (4) PERSON 2: How often have you thought, “I can’t find this thing, and I’ve searched the whole house. The only place I haven’t looked is the car, so it *must* be there.” PERSON 2: ...And then it’s never in the car. PERSON 1: *It’s never in the car!*

Eliminating the Impossible

xkcd.com/3210/

Raspberry Pi RP2350 devkit features 1.85-inch round touch display, microphone, optional speaker and battery box - CNX Software Waveshare RP2350-Touch-LCD-1.85C is a Raspberry Pi RP2350 devkit with a 1.85-inch round touchscreen display with 360×360 resolution, a built-in

Raspberry Pi RP2350 devkit features 1.85-inch round touch display, microphone, optional speaker and battery box - CNX Software share.google/FTKAkIsDdig5...

Qualcomm's Surprise Acquisition of Arduino Shakes Up Open Source Qualcomm promises to keep Arduino's open-source spirit alive. Will the community embrace this unexpected tech partnership?

Qualcomm's purchase or Arduino left everyone asking...why?!?!

Well. I found out: spectrum.ieee.org/qualcomm-ard...

#opensource #qualcomm #Arduino

Europe’s largest sodium-ion battery installation goes live - Energy Storage Switzerland’s Phenogy has launched a megawatt-hour-scale sodium ion energy storage system at a commercial site near Bremen Airport in northern Germany. With this project, the Swiss manufacturer is mak...

www.ess-news.com/2025/09/25/e... Great to see progress like this on sodium ion grid-level storage with a 1MWh store.

UK solar power output is breaking records this year, and has now exceeded the total generated in 2024 🌞

www.ft.com/content/9e49...

Raspberry Pi intros new 5-inch $40 touchscreen for your next weird project Officially supported dinky display works as a tiny all-in-one or smart home hub.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Solar is now 41% cheaper than fossil fuels, UN report shows The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point”, according to two United Nations reports released on Tuesday.

Almost all renewables cost lesd thsn fossil furls now www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ writes.

How to Run an ESP32 Zephyr Application on Espressif’s QEMU - Shawn Hymel When working with embedded systems, especially platforms like Zephyr, it’s not always practical to rely on real hardware. Maybe your dev board is in the mail,

You can run #Zephyr applications on QEMU, which is great for early development, debugging, and #CICD workflows. Check out my tutorial for using Espressif’s QEMU fork for emulating #ESP32 applications made with Zephyr: shawnhymel.com/2807/how-to-... #embedded #programming

4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: This stick is one meter long. PERSON 2 WITH SHORT HAIR: Cool. PERSON 3 WITH WHITE HAT: That’s a nice stick. (2) PERSON 1: This rock weighs one pound. PERSON 2: I’d believe it. PERSON 3: Looks like a normal rock. (3) PERSON 1: This battery is one volt. PERSON 2: Seems fine. PERSON 3: Might need a recharge. (4) PERSON 1: This capacitor is one farad. [2 and 3 leaning away attempting to shield themselves] PERSON 2: *AAAAA! Be careful!!* Person 3: Put it down!!

Farads

xkcd.com/3106/

Groundbreaking research at DCU has been featured on RTE News!

Dr Shirley Coyle & other researchers from DCU and ASU are developing wearable sensors to aid stroke rehab, tracking brain & muscle activity outside the clinic.

Read: www.dcu.ie/engineeringa...
@dublincityuni.bsky.social @news.rte.ie

How Amazon is using AIi to revolutionize robotics YouTube video by CNBC Television

Physical AI is the fusion of intelligent software with embodied systems (robots, digital twins, IoT, advanced vision, human–AI collaboration) and is rapidly becoming a headline theme for big-tech roadmaps. We cover all these topics in Engineering DCU. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DArL...

Google's XR Glasses Are Real… and I Tried Them YouTube video by Cas and Chary XR

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE4Y... Good review of the Google XR Glasses, which shows some of the information visible through the glasses. Huge steps forward. A mini-map for real life would be great.

My Channel Trailer-Highlights of my Ai Video Creations YouTube video by Kelly Boesch Ai Art

youtube.com/watch?v=jBia... AI Artistic creation is definitely possible when the prompt engineer has a creative mind. #AI #AI-art Great work 👏

Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit CUPERTINO, CA—Amidst the strain of tariffs, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced Thursday the launch of a new 7,083-piece iPhone kit. “Apple customers will have a blast soldering, polishing, and drilling as t...

Tariff-Strained Apple Announces 7,083-Piece iPhone Kit

Google Veo 3 Demo - Movie Scenes and Character Voices YouTube video by Jerrod Lew

Google Veo 3 is incredible. And I mean, incredible. It's now almost impossible to distinguish AI-generated video from real-world video. #Veo3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qh_...

PocketBeagle 2 Rev A1 board gets 1.4 GHz Sitara AM6254 quad-core Cortex-A53/Cortex-M4F SoC with 3D GPU - CNX Software The PocketBeagle 2 was first introduced with a 1.0 GHz Texas Instruments Sitara AM6232 dual-core Cortex-A53 GPUless SoC in February with Rev A0 of the

www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/22/p... Great addition to the family! #beaglebone #pocketbeagle

DCU logo made from flowers using Deepmind Gemini Imagen 4.

First attempt at a #Deepmind #Imagen4 prompt to test the image generation capability of Gemini 2.5 flash, which is freely available at: gemini.google.com #gemini #ai

Imagen Imagen 4 is our best text-to-image model yet, with photorealistic images, near real-time speed, and sharper clarity — to bring your imagination to life.

deepmind.google/models/imagen/ Unveiled at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, Imagen 4 is capable of rendering fine details like fabrics, water droplets, and animal fur. The model can handle photorealistic and abstract styles, creating images up to 2K resolution. #imagen techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/i...

This is bleak reading

The Final Year Projects Expo returned to DCU last week & saw 250+ projects produced by almost 400 soon-to-be graduates. The annual event allows students to showcase their acquired skills & expertise gained at DCU to industry professionals.

See: www.dcu.ie/engineeringa... @dublincityuni.bsky.social

Google launches new initiative to back startups building AI | TechCrunch Google's AI Futures Fund seeks to invest in startups that are building with the latest AI tools from Google DeepMind, the company’s AI R&D lab.

Google launches new initiative to back startups building AI

Civil War Brought to Life: Haunting Photos Reawakened After 160 Years YouTube video by History in Motion

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XksH... An impressive use of image-based machine learning to bring black-and-white historical photos to life with full-colour and simulated motion. #ML #history #BroughttoLife #HistoryInMotion

Are you an employer in the #engineering or #computing sectors? We are excited to announce that the DCU Final Year Projects Expo 2025 will take place on Wednesday May 7th🥳

Industry professionals & employers looking to attend can sign up here: forms.gle/ZWJpT69RnKDM...
@dublincityuni.bsky.social

This is K2-18b.

It’s a planet outside of our solar system, about 2 1/2 times the size of earth, orbiting a small red dwarf star.

The James Webb space telescope spent time studying this planet via spectroscopy and determined it has gases in its atmosphere that are only created through biology!

Sarraj Alsersawi

‘I kept going for my family’ – Gazan student graduates top of his class at Dublin City University.
Sarraj Alsersawi received an MSc in Electronic and Computer Technology @dcuengineering.bsky.social.
Read more in @independent.ie: launch.dcu.ie/4jxEXRN

Brid Horan, Chancellor of Dublin City University, An Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD, James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and Prof Dáire Keogh, President of Dublin City University Photo: Kyran O'Brien

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD and James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science speak to students at the official opening of the Polaris Building on Dublin City University's Glasnevin Campus Photo: Kyran O'Brien

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD shares a joke with former Dublin selector Mickey Whelan and Prof Niall Moyna from Dublin City University's School of Health and Human Performance Photo: Kyran O'Brien

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD unveils a plaque to mark the official opening of the Polaris Building with James Lawless TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Brid Horan, Chancellor of Dublin City University and Prof Dáire Keogh, President of Dublin City University Photo: Kyran O'Brien

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin @micheal-martin.bsky.social and Minister James Lawless @deptoffhed.bsky.social officially open DCU’s new Polaris Building.
Polaris is DCU’s newest building and Ireland’s most advanced facility for STEM Teaching and Learning.
Read more here: launch.dcu.ie/3XEScrd

You can search #LibGen, which is the pirated-books database that Meta used to Train their AI models at: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... In my case, there are 64 results that includes full copies of my textbooks. The ultimate irony was when others like OpenAI called out #DeepSeek for plagiarism!

Walk, Run, Crawl, RL Fun | Boston Dynamics | Atlas YouTube video by Boston Dynamics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I44_... The evolution of the Boston Dynamic Atlas robot is unbelievable. The motion is so smooth and fluid, and it is now more agile than most humans.

Congratulations on your graduation on Friday! – and a big thank you for the enthusiasm you brought as MC at the morning event – It was lovely to see you shine in so many roles before walking across the stage yourself – very well deserved.