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What does a holographic microscope look like? Check out the picture, courtesy of the ISS (International Space Station) National Lab.

We often think, nowadays, about monitoring the environment and air quality, but what about an especially confined version of "indoors"? Specifically, a lift. Well, here's a smart lift monitoring system.

Check out the Pimoroni Presto (Retail Edition), a "programmable desktop companion" that packages the Presto hardware in retail wrapping.

This is Arduino in the service of advanced robotics for material synthesis. Pictured is FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot from Hokkaido University.

Pictured are the team at the Satellite Applications Catapult. They are standing by the organisation’s gravity offload system, which can simulate microgravity here on Earth. The large steel structure is part of the In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) facility at the Catapult‘s site in Westcott, Buckinghamshire. Construction and testing are now finished, with the new capability marking the end ...

A sign of our space exploring times: the Scouts have launched a brand-new Space Activity Badge in partnership with the UK Space Agency.

This month the posts cover ultrasonic sensors, a Raspberry Pi sound pedal, the Apple iPad Pro 13, the Biomass satellite, and chess among others topics...

One to note: you have a new option for powering your remote Raspberry Pi application with the introduction of the Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector.

Music stories always get my attention, so check out this Raspberry Pi Pico system for a sound-effect pedal. Not so much Rock 'n' Roll as Pitch 'n' Roll ('n' Yaw!).

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.