Gadget Master

The facetious way to stop AI and robots taking over the world would simply be to unplug them. But what if a robot could move around to self-charge? Enter a modified self-docking Arduino Alvik robot!

This one caught my eye the other day. It's from The Register, about building a minimum PC for writers. What is described as an "antisocial writing rig".

I jumped at the chance recently to visit the renowned Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) situated in the rural rolling hills of Surrey...

It's time again to take a look at what's been hot on the blog this last month! We're talking microgravity, a sound pedal, a Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector, a holographic microscope, and much more...

A very expensive and complicated connector: an IBDM. It is a docking mechanism that will be used for the European Space Agency’s habitation module for the Lunar Gateway.

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 ...