I love the Pi, but it's not always the best tool for the job.

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Wherever hydrogen is present, safety sensors are required to detect leaks and prevent the formation of flammable oxyhydrogen ...

What use is a sensor that's wrong?

An international collaboration involving researchers from the University of Innsbruck has developed a novel luminescent material that enables particularly robust and precise optical temperature ...

Olimex HoT (Home of Things) is a lightweight Smart Home solution designed to run on low-end hardware (128MB RAM, 128MB flash) ...

Whether for drug screening or toxicity testing, stem cell-based 3D tissue models are key to biomedical research. However, ...

I spent several weeks testing Withings’ BeamO thermometer to see who could benefit the most from its futuristic design.

Abstract: The pressure sensors capable of high sensitivity and wide measuring range at high temperature are urgently needed in many industrial fields. We propose a novel fiber-optic Fabry-Pérot ...

Abstract: In this study, a distributed multi-channel fiber-optic sensor for simultaneous measurement of relative humidity (RH) and temperature with finer gauge length based on spatial-domain ...