Gadget Master

Considering buying a digital camera? How about Sphere Entertainment's Big Sky camera system? STMicroelectronics makes the 316Mpixel 18K image sensor at the heart of the device...

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas can be great for seeing the latest and greatest gadgets and confirming new industry trends, but not everyone hits it out of the park. Here, to prove the point, is iFixit's and Repair.org's Worst in Show awards.

This time, we’re talking Mars names, satellite data, tax returns, records in space, the Euclid telescope, GNSS, and more...

Time for our first addition to the Gadget Master library in 2024. Check out Save the World with Code: 20 Fun Projects for All Ages Using Raspberry Pi, micro:bit, and Circuit Playground Express.

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.

It's not a Canadian frontier territory, it's a "modular, no-soldering, robotics and engineering platform". It's built around the Yukon Host, a standalone controller powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2040.

I really like this one, the waxing and waning. It's described as a Moon phase device, which models the aspects of our satellite orb.

Before we rush pell-mell into the New Year, let's just pause to consider the most popular Gadget Master posts written in 2023. Starting with #10 and a very tiny Raspberry Pi RP2040 powered TV screen...

This one may be of interest to those with IoT projects: how to install the FlowFuse Edge Agent on the Raspberry Pi 5, so you can manage the latest and greatest Pi with Node-RED through FlowFuse...

This is the CurveQuad, the mini quadruped robot based on origami. The centimetre-scale device uses curved-crease origami to self-fold, unfold, crawl and steer. This is done using a single motor.