Gadget Master

There is now extended ESP32 support - i.e. non Arduino boards - to ESP32-S2, ESP32-S3 and ESP32-C3 devices, commonly used by hobbyists and developers.

Check out this picture of a Hi-Fi system using transparent power delivery. Zytronic will be demonstrating its ElectroglaZ high-current transparent conductor technology at the Light + Building event in Frankfurt.

Okay, I admit it, I'm late to the party, but I'm not a gamer. But even I've now heard about the Steam Deck, a Linux-powered handheld gaming device.

Unsmart phones have been a bit of a theme on Gadget Master - after all, a clever or cool gadget doesn't have to be bleeding edge technology.

As Dynamic Islands go, it may not be the most dynamic, but there are other things to see on the latest Apple iPhone flagship when the iFixit team teardown the iPhone 14 Pro.

The Beta version for Arduin IDE 2.0 was launched back in Spring 2021, and now - following feedback received from the Arduino community - the release is 'stable'.

What can I say? One YouTube video (the levitating lamp) led to another and the next thing I knew the Ginko Moon Lamp was centre stage, playing and rotating and levitating...

Fancy making a cool looking magnetic levitating lamp? Check out this Arduino Nano-based project that combines a magnet and LEDs.

This is an interesting one - Google's Palm-SayCan research into companion robots in a real-world environment and the use of language to best control them.

This has been a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and sounds fascinating, but I must admit I missed it: Hybrid Humans, with the subtitle, Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine.