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Wow. How about this? Thanks to Engadget for highlighting something custom made for our Gadget-in-extremis category. It’s a sound system so powerful it would kill you to hear it in full force! It’s at the European Space Agency and is the Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF) that simulates the noise of a rocket launch. The ESA writes: LEAF is an ...

Anything to do with BeagleBone catches my interest, so I’m happy to flag this one – a new book that may be of interest to Gadget Masters:  BeagleBone Robotic Projects, written by Richard Grimmett. The publishers write: BeagleBone Robotic Projects provides step-by-step instructions to allow anyone to use this new, low cost platform in some fascinating robotics projects. By the time readers ...

The latest iPhone features a biometric Home button, to help the device quickly authorise your access, but of course it is not the first gadget to go down this route. New Scientist has highlighted another device that uses biometric information to save you remembering multiple passwords and the like. But it is not fingerprint info, but your very heartbeat. Nymi ...

August, die she must… As autumn fast approaches, chilly and cold, let us pause but a while to consider the last flickering clicks, and distant echoes of links, of the summer that has gone in the province of Gadget Master. Or, to put it another more prosaic way, which posts have proved the most popular in the month of August? Topics ...

One for our new Student Gadget Meisters section. Is this the world’s-first smart fabric screen-printed electroluminescent watch display? The gadget master in question is Marc de Vos, a third-year student in Electronics and Computer Science, who has developed the fabric device for his Part III Individual Project. According to the university, the watch display is printed directly on to fabric, ...

Just to flag that the Gadget Master blog is expanding – we’ve added two new sections to the DIY gadget blog: The Build Your Own section The Student Gadget Meisters section How to Build your own It’s a round-up of the many and varied posts that help you on the road to building your own electronics gadgets… We thought it would ...

What is it about the Tricordeer that has inveigled its way so well into the public consciousness? We’ve covered the “Star Trek device” a couple of times before on Gadget Master (see Design a Tricorder, win $10 million and Star Trek gizmos, The Collection), but here it comes again, seemingly originating from the province of NASA… It seems the proposed ...

Thanks to reader Alan Metcalfe for bringing this to Gadget Master's attention. He describes it as "a simple Mr Spock circular (resistor) calculator, to cut-out and make".