Hah, this is pretty neat. I've been working on a hobby project to build something very similar myself using an ESP8266 + sensors crammed into a hollowed out wal

Hah, this is pretty neat. I've been working on a hobby project to build something very similar myself using an ESP8266 + sensors crammed into a hollowed out wall wart. This sort of project is really fun, I recommend trying it. As a product, the PocketLab looks like it provides a jump start into playing with sensor networks. I would have loved to have something like this as a kid in school. The price seems a bit steep considering the specs on the guts, but I imagine part of this is the software + the fact that this is an early adopter preview. If it's rugged enough to last and the software easy to use then this would certainly be worthwhile for educators.