At last the printer is working well enough to print something other than a modification to make it print better. And here is the result, a first stab at a bicycle light – in this case one based on a pair of Carclo 26.5mm collimators. Good citizen note: With powerful leds behind them, it is …

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Makerspace at Guildford Library is a series of events, rather than a permanent facility, held in Surrey. The Makerspace has its own equipment (and a meetup page), which is installed in a multi-purpose room during the events. Library staff also do out-reach events (to schools for example) and in-house courses and workshops (Arduino for example), …

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I not addicted, I can give up reading about 3D printing any time, said the obsessive. But until that moment, I feel the need to draw your attention to this beautiful jewel-like one-off piece of engineering. Called Dice, it is an extraordinarily stiff mini 3D printer, build by Rene Jurack, to print very fast – …

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At CES in Las Vegas, Signify shows Hue lights instructed by Google Assistant to slowly dim at night and brighten in the morning.

Amazon QuickSight launches support for additional functionality on pivot table charts. Pivot tables now have an updated look and feel with consistent shading, support copy and pasting cell values, provide formatting options to auto fit to screen size to reduce empty spaces and more. Most importantly, you can add totals and sub-totals on rows and columns, expand/collapse all rows/columns with a single click. Additionally, with increase in row/column field limits, authors can now add up to 20 values in each of the row and column field wells. With pagination enabled, users can now scroll down and across infinitely. For more information on new pivot table enhancements, see here .

With AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) , you can now enable your users to get to the AWS resources they manage quickly. You can now configure relay state for AWS accounts to direct your users to a specific AWS console page, such as the Amazon EC2 console, instead of going to AWS console home page when they choose AWS account in the user portal. You can configure relay state for each permission set that you manage in AWS SSO, allowing you to set the AWS console page corresponding to the AWS resource defined in the permission set. To learn more about how to direct your users to a specific AWS Management Console page, see Manage SSO to Your AWS Accounts .

Amazon EC2 Spot makes it easier to operate Spot Instances at scale by publishing the results for the “Describe Spot Instance Request” in a multi-page format. You can check the status of your Spot request and receive the results in multiple pages by setting the MaxResults parameter to a value between 5 and 1000. You can receive up to a maximum of 1000 results in a single page. If there are more than 1000 results to display, you will receive a Next Token. Use the Next Token to receive the next set of results until the Next Token is null. This enables you to get all the results from your describe request in multiple pages. We recommend you to use paginated describes instead of getting all the results in a single request.

Pagination support for the Describe Spot Instance requests API is now available in all public AWS Regions. You can learn more about this feature in the docs here .

You can now use AWS Config to record configuration changes to AWS Service Catalog , a service that allows customers to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS. With AWS Config, you can track changes to the configuration of an AWS Service Catalog portfolio, such as addition or removal of launch constraints, tags and accounts with which the portfolio has been shared.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. 

You can now run Appium tests written in Ruby or Node.js against your native, hybrid and browser-based apps on AWS Device Farm . Device Farm supports tests written in any JavaScript and Ruby frameworks such as Mocha and RSpec. You can also specify the dependencies your project needs and the exact commands to be run during test execution, to ensure your tests run precisely like they do in your local environment.

AWS Device Farm is an app testing service that lets you run automated tests and interact with your Android, iOS, and web apps on real devices. Device Farm supports running automated tests written in most of the popular test frameworks including Espresso, XCTest, Appium Python and Appium Java. Starting today, you can use Device Farm to execute your tests written in Appium Node.js and Appium Ruby against real devices. You can customize any step in the test process using these frameworks through a simple configuration file.

To learn more about how to use Appium Node.js for Android AWS Device Farm please review our documentation .

For more information on AWS Device Farm please visit our product page .