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This kit contains all the parts for four-legged robot with remote control. The robot is powered by twelve servos that are controlled by an Arduino Nano board. The remote control also contains a Nano board and a joystick for controlling the robot.

Values measured for a physical parameter called ‘the dew point’ indicate not only the risk of mould growth but also corrosion of steel objects including tools. Ventilating and heating afford some control over the dew point at a certain spot. However, to do this in a sensible way, the dew point has to be determined beforehand. That is exactly what this smart device is doing.

Distrelec Ltd, leading European distributor of electronics, automation and measurement technology has added the new Spresense range by Sony, manufacturer of consumer and professional electronics, to the webshop.

The new Arduino MKR VIDOR 4000 board is available in the Elektor Store. With an Intel 10CL016 FPGA. That’s 16 000 logic elements plus some specialised signal processing embedded multipliers (read: audio and video). The board, at 83 x 25 mm (3.3 x 1 inches) is as full as an egg. In addition to standard GPIOs, there are HDMI, USB, JST and MIPI (Camera) connectors. And let’s not forget the ARM ATSAMD21 32-bit microcontroller!

You can use simple LED indicators to show the status of an application you are developing using an IoT board but you can convey so much more information when the dev board has the luxury of a built-in display. Check out this low-cost ESP32 development board with built-in OLED display available now from the Elektor Store.

Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created somewhere around 1928 by writer H. P. Lovecraft. Being fictional and only described in words, its appearance is open to interpretation. Over the years several artists have had a go at it and came up with spectacular drawings, but none of them went as far as to give it the shape of an Arduino Mega add-on shield.

Dragino is a manufacturer of IoT hardware, specialised in Linux IoT/VOIP, Arduino Yùn add-on boards and LoRa modules and gateways. One of their latest products is the LSN50 long-range LoRa sensor node, designed for outdoor use.

Even though the Internet of Things or IoT has been buzzing for a while now, it still remains somewhat inaccessible to many people. The Sunfounder IoT Shield Kit reviewed in this article tries to change this by providing easy-to-use add-on boards for the popular Arduino platform. With the kit anyone with a bit of electronics and programming experience (and some perseverance) can create an internet-connected object.

Pixy2 is an artificial vision sensor for rapid recognition of moving shapes and colours. It follows objects at a rate of 60 images per second and has algorithms for recognition of shapes and colours. To better follow moving objects, it may be mounted (as an option) on a pan-tilt support, and control the vertical and horizontal movements itself.

If it happens to me, it probably happens to other people as well: once you think about it, it is too late. Xmas decoration is such a thing; you just can't start early enough with planning your Xmas decoration, especially when it involves complex lighting schemes requiring hours of programming time. Not this year however with a project that's sure to give you a head start.