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Hardware, Volume 4, Issue 1

2026 March - 4 articles

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Development of a Low-Cost, Open-Source Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Monitoring for Potential Biomedical Applications

Gabriel G. Muñoz,
Martín J. Millicovsky,
Albano Peñalva,
Juan I. Cerrudo,
Juan M. Reta and
Martín A. Zalazar

Hardware2026, 4(1), 4;https://doi.org/10.3390/hardware4010004

2 February 2026

Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) systems are widely used for the real-time analysis of mass changes and viscoelastic properties in biological samples, enabling applications such as biomolecular interaction studies, bios...

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IoT-Based Automation of Dynamic Demand Response

Abdul Basit and
Samuel Liu

Hardware2026, 4(1), 3;https://doi.org/10.3390/hardware4010003

2 February 2026

Dynamic demand response (DDR) is the process of shifting power consumption towards periods of lower demand based on real-time energy pricing data. It is a flexibility measure utilised in the decarbonisation of the UK’s power system to reduce pe...

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Construction of an Educational Prototype of a Differential Wheeled Mobile Robot

Celso Márquez-Sánchez,
Jacobo Sandoval-Gutiérrez and
Daniel Librado Martínez-Vázquez

Hardware2026, 4(1), 2;https://doi.org/10.3390/hardware4010002

23 January 2026

This work presents the development of a differential-drive wheeled mobile robot educational prototype, manufactured using 3D additive techniques. The robot is powered by an embedded ARM-based computing system and uses open-source software. To validat...

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A Smart Vision-Aided RICH (Robotic Interface Control and Handling) System for VULCAN

Albert P. Song,
Alice Tang,
Dunji Yu and
Ke An

Hardware2026, 4(1), 1;https://doi.org/10.3390/hardware4010001

14 January 2026

High-flux neutron beams and high-efficiency detectors enable rapid neutron diffraction measurements at the Engineering Materials Diffractometer (VULCAN) at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). To optimize beam ti...

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