Gadget Master

Well, since the last roundup we did, the Gadget Master 'Book library' has built up even further. Check out these latest six publications we've featured on the blog.

I like the look of this one. Or, should I say, I like the sound of this one: a Raspberry Pi guitar tuner.

Published by MITeen Press, this book - Become An App Inventor - is aimed at young inventors, wanting to design and publish their own apps.

This could be an interesting one if you work with robotics, flagged by the Arduino team - a look at how to smooth the operation of a servo, to avoid jerking between positions.

One to note for Arduino command line users: a new version is out, with Arduino CLI 0.19.0 now available.

Thanks to Steve Bush, our technology editor, for highlighting this one. The Germany-based BARTH Elektronik have trained their BARTH lococube to be the programmable barista...

A random picture of lava lamps? Or a picture of random lava lamps? It's the lobby of Cloudflare, in California, and it helps the cloud services company generate random numbers for its operations. This is LavaRand....

Say hello to Oscar-Qube, its name is short for Optical Sensors based on CARbon materials: QUantum Belgium. And, using an extra-sensitive magnetometer, the Earth-mapping system is now in space.

Like London buses. You wait ages for a Gadget Book to come along and then two come together. After Living with Robots, check out this one - EW 105: Space Electronic Warfare.

This book sounds like a good, worthwhile read. It's from MIT Press and is called Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know.