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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.
Laser Graffiti runs in the browser and paints on a wall from a laser pointer. Behind the gimmick: calibration across camera, projector and surface, plus a neat feedback problem.
Ken Chang admits he cannot write Verilog, yet an AI co-wrote a handwritten-digit classifier that is heading for a TinyTapeout shuttle. Everything checks out in simulation; the foundry remains the real test.
A nine-dollar universal travel adapter bus-bars every set of prongs onto one conductor. Plug in one set and the others sit at mains voltage.
Orkest Phion is a travelling orchestra with no permanent hall. Thonik anchored its identity in the variable font GT Planar, whose slant angle acts as a score for every campaign.