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Portable Ludens analog Geiger counter with a long tube above the case and a needle meter

A one-cell Geiger counter with a needle, not a screen

Ludens built a sensitive analog Geiger counter around a J306β tube, one AA cell, a 400 V supply and a moving needle. The interesting part is not nostalgia; it is readability while the probe is moving.

Red n shelf made from bent bamboo

When a chair becomes a piece of kumihimo

In Red Craft, Kenta Yoshizawa does not simply place four traditional materials on contemporary shapes. He lets their constraints decide what the objects become.

USBridge-KVM 2.0 shown as a black enclosure with an integrated display

When the BIOS becomes SSH output

USBridge-KVM 2.0 promises pre-boot access with video, keyboard emulation, local OCR and an SSH terminal. The useful story is split between what is already verifiable and what still belongs to a hardware campaign.

Illustrated What The Sketch? game box with three colourful characters

The box gets two seconds to teach the game

For What The Sketch?, Luke McConkey was not just drawing a funny box. He had to make a game of shapes, speed and guessing feel legible before anyone opened the rules.