Gadget Master

Check out this Raspberry Pi-powered LED matrix that shows the current weather across Scotland, by displaying a suitably varied coloured map. Wind, cloud cover, rain and temperature are button-selectable options.

This is just a bit of fun - a way to take a different angle on some of the Gadget Master posts we've featured over recent years.

This book may interest Gadget Masters who wanted to better understand edge computing and the infrastructures that can underlie it – it’s full title is: Understanding Infrastructure Edge Computing: Concepts, Technologies, and Considerations. Written by Alex Marcham – who apparently coined the term ‘infrastructure edge computing’ – it’s intended to provide an accessible view of the next generation of internet ...

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This one caught my eye. Maybe it was the glint of glass - it's the Sony LSPX-S3 Glass sound speaker, which looks like an antique gas light or candle holder.

Check out this Arduino-based component tester. The device is intended to give a simple way to test transistors, resistors, capacitors, diodes and MOSFETs, and such like. It was originally developed by Markus Frejek, but the project has been continued by Karl-Heinz Kübbeler and Markus Reshke. Simply insert the relevant component, push the button, and read the displayed characteristics. For this ...

Need to get rid of some old electronics kit? Check out the website Recycle Your Electricals with its recycling locator giving information on 2,500 donation and recycling points across the UK.

Interested in 3D-printing, and OpenSCAD specifically, which is open source scripting-based software for creating 3D CAD objects? This book may be for you.

Want to use a Raspberry Pi Pico with some motor control, maybe for some plug-and-play robotics projects? Here comes Kitronik's Robotics Board for Raspberry Pi Pico.

This year's Advanced Engineering UK will give you a great chance to inspect Bruno, the Airbus Defence and Space UK prototype ExoMars rover.