Gadget Master

In October, the most popular stories ranged across AI ships, robotic dogs, FPGAs, record-breaking electric racing cars, coffee machines, and more.

This Arduino-based system to monitor soil conditions is called the Squirrel Box, and it's made by researchers at the Universities of Newcastle and Nottingham.

This one is sure to catch your eye: a "Tesla" go-kart (a Teskart) featuring an Arduino-based autopilot. Well, it partly resembles a Tesla..

Pictured is Mythen, an electric racing car hand-​built by students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University, which has broken the Guinness World Record for acceleration.

The repair-specialists iFixit have taken the unusual step of retroactively dropping its iPhone 14 official Repairability Score. An Apple practice called 'parts pairing' is to blame...

Here's a book you may consider worthy for your shelves. It's not strictly gadget-related, but FPGAs should be meat and drink for Electronics Weekly...

I do like to keep track of Spot's progress, the peripatetic robotic dog from Boston Dynamics. He has now been spotted in Dounreay, working on a UK nuclear decommissioning site.

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...

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi team for highlighting this one: glasses (with Googly eyes) that can "Google" what they see*, via a clever use of a captioning service and OpenAI.

Samsung has unveiled a 600-inch 8K LED display, dubbed The Wall, at its newly opened "immersive" flagship retail store in the Gangnam district of Seoul.