Gadget Master

Time for a new one in our Devboard Watch series. Digi International and SparkFun Electronics are combining on the cellular IoT-focused SparkFun Digi XBee.

This one is aimed at professionals – I’m stretching the ‘Gadget Book’ definition – and covers the design of embedded system electronics: Applied Embedded Electronics: Design Essentials for Robust Systems. The elevator pitch is that it’s “a comprehensive design reference, from initial concept to final PCB, for all embedded system electronics”. The publishers write: “This book guides you through all ...

One for those keeping an eye on Matter, the connectivity standard for smart devices and the IoT: Arduino is partnering with Silicon Labs to better enable development of "Matter over Thread" applications for Arduino devices.

Spot the robotic dog has been spotted again - working at Simmering, Austria's larger power station, for Wien Energie.

We haven't featured a teardown for a while, and this is a good one: an iFixit teardown of the very new (and very expensive) Apple Vision Pro.

Pictured is the next-generation spacesuit for the International Space Station (ISS), which is lighter weight and lower volume than NASA's current spacesuit.

I love this one, and I love the name: the BinDaycator, an MCU-controlled model that tells you which coloured bin is due for collection. I first saw an image of it on twitter, on one of those syndicate collection site – all about the bantz and the lolz and funny pets – but thought it was worth following further… It ...

Check out a Raspberry Pi friendly LoRaWAN Module, supporting long-distance IoT scenarios: the LR1302. It's released by Elecrow.

This is an interesting one - sentiment analysis with Node-RED. It's a guide to building a simple sentiment analysis system using the Node-RED platform.

Here's one to note: Arduino has updated its Cloud Editor, brings the classic Arduino IDE experience to the browser.