December 7th 2022 Newsletter
Introducing B.E.R.D, new Arduino and restock for Raspberry Pis New Products | Raspberry Pi | Arduino | BBC Micro:Bit | STEM Welcome to this week's newsletter, introducing B.E.R.D a robotic...
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The World's First Commercial Drone Delivery Service
Wing is the world's first commercial drone delivery company, they recently launched a public delivery service in Canberra, Australia. The service is currently limited to a small neighbourhood and offers drone delivery...
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Handle - The robot that loads and unloads pallets
Boston Dynamics are a company that's well known for their viral videos of their robotic creations which take the internet by storm but this week they shared a video of something a...
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Can Bees Talk to Fish?
A research project undertaken by the ASSISIbf (Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems) is trying to enable cross-species communication, starting with a group of bees and a school of fish. One...
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The Original iPhone Prototype
It's been over 12 years since the original iPhone was announced, it was developed in secret by Apple under the codenames "M68" and "Purple 2". Recently images and details of...
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The robotic arm that will feed you dinner
The University of Washington is currently working on developing a robotic arm system that will help people eat their meals that may currently be unable to do so without assistance....
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The £10 million record setting internet cable
The internet is a global service that allows you to connect and communicate with people around the world. One of the reasons you're able to do this is due to...
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Inside the Chinese Restaurant Using AI Waiters and Chefs
Haidilao is a popular Chinese restaurant chain most known for its Szechuan hot pot dish. Their Beijing location has recently incorporated AI robotics in the form of AI waiters and chefs...
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The AI based text generator considered too dangerous to be released!
In a recent blog post, OpenAI released details about a large scale language model they've created that is able to generate paragraphs of text that are indistinguishable from that written by...
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The solar powered drone taking pictures of the world
The Ordnance Survey is an organisation that has been producing maps of the UK since 1791 and their headquarters is based near us in Southampton. They recently announced plans to...
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The robot that can play Jenga!
This robot developed by engineers at MIT uses machine learning and sensory hardware to determine the safest move to make in a game of Jenga. It uses visual and tactile...
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Using science to build the best snowman!
With the current weather in some parts of the UK as well as the forecast for the next few days we thought we'd take a look at one of the...
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The synth module that uses lightning!
This new synth module created by Erica Synths in collaboration with Gamechanger Audio literally distorts audio by changing it into lightning! The system boosts the audio signal inputted to an...
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The Computer Housed Inside a PC Mouse
A YouTuber recently revealed his "Computer Mouse", a fully functional Linux computer housed in a regular sized PC mouse. His inspiration was a plug and play Raspberry Pi based computer he...
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