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SELF packs an ELF program into a valid SQLite database, registers four bytes at offset 68 with binfmt_misc, and runs it. strip becomes a transaction, ldd a JOIN.
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K-Veritas ties commands, metrics and report into a signed trace you can verify without rerunning the experiment. The signature proves less than the project implies — that is what makes it interesting.
A 'C-mount lens' bought for $20 on eBay turned out to be a Super 8 projector lens. Mason Mirabito redesigned his 3D-printed adapter around it, and learned why a camera's geometry has to be discovered with a file.
A new MIT algorithm generates plausible extreme-event scenarios without ever training on an extreme event. The trick, and its limits, live in what is imposed on the model.
The FLIT M2i swaps the welds on its aluminium frame for structural adhesive. Welding weakens thin tubes; bonding buys back alignment and weight, but raises repair questions that are not new.
Glass-core substrates were meant to replace organic packaging after Intel's 2023 announcement. Three years on, they are only entering package qualification, and the first product keeps slipping.
Michael Green built a €130 workbench from a KALLAX unit and an old desk top, against €1,000 for custom furniture. The point is not the price, but a standard module becoming a reversible fabrication platform.
Sources spotted by IRZ this month, ranked by editorial relevance.
A $9 universal adapter bus-bars all its prongs onto one conductor, so plugging in one set makes every other exposed set sit at mains voltage.
Ken Chang admits he cannot write Verilog but let an AI co-write an MNIST digit classifier (64→32→10 MLP, ternary hard-wired weights, no RAM/ROM) heading for a TinyTapeout SKY 26c shuttle on SkyWater 130 nm, with bit-exact cocotb checks against the model.
Laser Graffiti brings the Graffiti Research Lab idea back in the browser: a webcam, a projector and a laser pointer are enough to paint on a wall, with homography calibration and a burn mode faked by subtracting light.
Mason Mirabito keeps modding his cheap Kmart digicam: the $20 eBay lens turned out to be a Super 8 projector lens, forcing a full redesign of his 3D-printed adapter and a hunt for a way to move the sensor closer to the lens.
Mason Mirabito opens the Anko JLR-80051 camcorder bought at Kmart and designs a deliberately oversized 3D-printed C-mount adapter, meant to be filed down to the correct flange distance once the lens arrives.
Michael Green (Green Lightning) built two workbenches by screwing the top of his old desk onto 2×2 KALLAX units through MDF boards and rubber, for ~€130 each against ~€1,000 for custom work, showing how a cheap standard module becomes a constrained, reversible fabrication platform.