  Experiments based on noble liquids and solid state cryogenic detectors have
had a leading role in the direct detection of dark matter. But smaller scale
projects can help to explore the new dark matter landscape with advanced,
ultra-sensitive detectors based on recently developed technologies. Here, the
physics case of different types of small scale dark matter experiments will be
presented and many of them will be reviewed, highlighting the detection
techniques and summarizing their properties, results and status.
