Sensors

Check out the Avnet element14 competition "In Reach!" - it's an "Ultrasonic Sensor Sensing Challenge" to build projects using TDK’s waterproof ultrasonic range sensors.

Adding LoRaWAN comms to a rain guage, with the system featuring a Microchip ATmega328P processor and a Littelfuse TMR (tunnel magnetoresistance) sensor...

Say hello to the latest Nordic Thingy from Nordic Semiconductor - the Nordic Thingy:91 X, to be precise. Something to consider if you want to monitor environmental conditions or track movement...

We've featured smart cricket balls, footballs, tennis racquets and golf clubs on Gadget Master, so how about a bit of smart snooker? Featuring a gyroscopically controlled surface, no less.

This is a nice one - the "Enviro + Air Quality" which works with your Raspberry Pi. It gives you information about your local indoor environment, including air quality measurements.

I managed to miss the latest smart football when it was first introduced for the World Cup 2022, but now the technology is influencing the results of games, I've finally clocked it.

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 is an interesting one - displaying environmental information for a room in the form a piece of art, via AI. Painting points of data, you could say.

Thanks once again to the Nordic Wireless Quarter for this one, a smart vineyard system using an IoT device for frost warnings.

I'm old enough to remember when CD players were the new fangled technology, and now the discs head towards landfill. Unless, that is, Binghamton University researchers can help create a second life for them, as flexible biosensors that are inexpensive and easy to manufacture.