Arduino

The Arduino team has announced a PLC Starter Kit aimed at those looking to learn about industrial automation apps. We're talking real-time control, and monitoring and maintenance applications...

There's a new Arduino board in town - the Nano 33 BLE Rev2, a new iteration of Arduino's popular board that features built-in magnetometer and inertial measurements, and Bluetooth LE.

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.

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

This one certainly caught my eye! I do like a creepy "following eyes device". Check out this system for making a painting's eyes follow you around the room.

Check out this introductory project for using a 2.4GHz radio - taking first steps to working with the Nordic Semiconductor nRF24L01 module along with two Arduino Mega boards.

We've had a few smart sporting elements on Gadget Master - smart football, smart golf club, smart tennis raquet, smart cricket ball - well, how about a smart basketball net?

The Gadget Master is one Naveen Kumar, and he has built a device for a pillow that has learned to detect snoring, and then gently alert the sleeper.

I do like stabiliser projects - whether Murata unicyclists or self-balancing tightrope walkers - and here's a "Stabiliser Zonai Device". We're talking DC motors and gyroscopic precession...

Just a quick one to note: Arduino has updated its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for programming its devices. It's now Arduino IDE 2.2.0.