In this expansion pack for Episode 6 - The Everyday Tech...Keeping Bees Buzzing, we looked at hive monitoring and in this final episode of the series, Lucy shares how she built her own home temperature monitoring kit.

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In Episode 6 Lucy discovers how temperature sensors are helping fight the decline of one of nature’s most important pollinators. She talks to Broodminder founder Rich Morris about hive monitoring, Beekeeper Sara Hilt about how she quintupled her bee population and Professor Christina Grozinger about how data from sensors powered by everyday tech could help reverse bee decline.

Plus, can Lucy use the tech for herself to stop her ice-creams from melting?

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In this expansion pack for Episode 5 - Lucy talks to (at the time of recording) Ocado’s Chief Technology Offer Paul Clarke about dark kitchens and the future of food production and distribution.

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In Episode 5 Lucy discovers how humidity and moisture sensors are helping to revolutionise the way we grow our food. She talks to Adam Waterman at LettUs Grow about aeroponic farms that can manage themselves, and Le Lan Anh from Mimosa Technology on how everyday tech sensors are helping Vietnamese farmers manage scarce water supplies.

Plus, can Lucy use the tech for herself to keep her own plants alive when she’s off on her adventures?

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The show that explores how everyday tech can be used in extraordinary ways. In this tongue in cheek expansion pack for Episode 4 - RFID tags, Lucy finds her lab going haywire when her RFID tagging gets out of hand…

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In Episode 4 Lucy discovers how students flew RF tags (as used in passes and security labels) into space to test a new way for satellites to communicate. She talks to mechanical engineer Julie Cox about how she launched her experiment, Mission Manager Scott Higginbotham about why NASA likes to work with student innovators and Professor Hiroaki Akiyama about other everyday tech being used in space research.

Plus, what happens when Lucy gets given a load of RFID tags to play with?

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The show that explores how everyday tech can be used in extraordinary ways. In this expansion pack for Episode 3 - Accelerometers, Lucy takes you behind the scenes on how she built a smart collar for Encke.

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In Episode 3 Lucy discovers how accelerometers are helping conservationists better understand animals in the wild. She talks to researcher Danielle Brown about why accelerometers are a game-changer compared to GPS and animal movement expert Rory Wilson shares the mystery of the kicking albatrosses...

Plus, what happens if you attach a smart collar to your pet dog?

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