Gadget Master

Visitors to London over the weekend had a chance to see a life-size replica of the first rocket that will launch from UK soil later this year - the Virgin Orbit LauncherOne, due to take off from Spaceport Cornwall.

One for budding Gadget Masters maybe, or for those who want to deepen their electronics understanding - it's the UKESF's Introduction to Electronic Engineering online course, which is currently free.

Don't know what it is about a combination lock, but I remember being fascinated by them as a child... Hence this one caught my eye: a system that can apparently crack combination locks in under a minute.

What time is it? Time for an iFixit teardown of the new Apple Watch Ultra. How ultra is it, exactly, and how repairable can a watch be?

This one looks interesting, a new entrant for our virtual Gadget Library: a book about autonomous AI-enabled drones and the Raspberry Pi 4.

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.