Sensors

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.

Need some help with tightrope walking? Fancy using an MCU-based system? Well, pop this little device (!) on your back and you'll be underway...

It's certainly worth checking out the winners of the “Just Encase” Design Challenge, recently run element14 community. See the OrbWeaver Rover, for example...

The Swarm Eval Kit is described as an out-of-the-box satellite communications kit allows you to build IoT sensors - for temperature, weather or asset tracking, say - that can relay their data through the Swarm Technologies network from anywhere on the planet.

Now joining the Arduino MKR series of boards is the MKR IoT Carrier, a new carrier board with a colour display and embedded sensors.

Want to get in touch with your inner drummer - your hidden Michael Shrieve, or Tony Williams, maybe - but you're worried about a racket for your neighbours, let alone the cost. Well, check out Freedrum and their smart drum sticks. Just hit the air.

Hendrix would be in heaven with this one - an electric guitar packed with electronics. The creator describes it as a synth-guitar hybrid that uses a Teensy 3.6 microcontroller.