Prusa opens its designs, but not the market
OCL v1.1 lets non-commercial users modify and share, but blocks commercial replication by default. Its new plugins only add more conditions. Under OSHWA’s definition, this is not open-source hardware.
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To see VFX salaries, CreativeRates asks for your rate first
CreativeRates trades one anonymous rate for a year of access to pay data in the same discipline. The mechanism creates transparency, along with its own sampling biases.
PINE64 released 84 MB of PinePhone geometry. It is not the source code
PINE64 released the full PinePhone STEP assembly. IRZ opened its 84.2 MB: 265 products and 927 assembly occurrences, in a 2020 geometry export rather than the native parametric CAD.
Making a MXene in 30 Seconds Does Not Take 30 Seconds
Rice etched nine MAX families into MXenes in under 30 seconds. The raw data tell the more useful story: the reaction becomes almost instantaneous, while the full process keeps a second clock.
AI is buying the books the web never saw, then cutting off their spines
Anthropic and Amazon have tied AI to a new physical pipeline: buy books the web never saw, scan them, and sometimes destroy the copies.
This electric aircraft flew for 27 minutes. It was not a range test
Heart X1 flew for 27 minutes with more than one megawatt of electric propulsion. The flight validates integration at regional-aircraft scale, not the 200 km range promised for the future ES-30.
Sigma BF: seven hours of machining to manufacture simplicity
The Sigma BF's solid body takes seven hours of machining and a robot-run factory line working around the clock. A look at the real industrial cost of minimalism, told by Sigma's own CEO.
Palestine Online: bringing the 1990s Palestinian web back to life
With Palestine Online, Processing Foundation fellow Amad Ansari rebuilds the Palestinian websites of the late 1990s. An archive where every technical choice is also a political one.
3D printing tungsten carbide: soften it, don't melt it
Hiroshima researchers deposited tungsten carbide-cobalt with a laser and hot wire, without fully melting it: over 1400 HV with no defects, and expensive material placed only where it matters.
How the narwhal builds the only straight tusk in nature
The narwhal's tusk grows in a spiral yet stays straight for over two meters. A new study reveals the mechanism: a molecular double helix with opposite chiralities that compensates for uneven deposition.