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The CMP 170HX, an Ethereum mining card that sank to $250, carries A100 silicon and HBM2e throttled by firmware. The open-source cmpunlocker tool wakes up the 64GB soldered on the board.
Firefox 151 ships the Web Serial API: flashing CircuitPython, reading a USB power meter or configuring ESPHome no longer requires Chromium. The interesting part is the permission model, not the compatibility checkbox.
Emmanuel Boos keeps certain warps, rolling marks and glaze traces. This is not a retreat from control: it is a judgement made possible by knowing the material unusually well.
The Balloon Banjo uses a party balloon as a tunable resonator. Its better trick is mechanical: making assembly child-friendly deliberately increased the number of printed parts.
A NC State patch detects dangerous gases, aerosols and heavy metals in water, then warns you through distinct vibration codes. The interesting part is not the sensor. It is the end of the chain.
Nakagin Capsule Tower was designed to keep its concrete cores while capsules were repaired or replaced every 25 years. Across fifty years, two theoretical replacement cycles passed without a single planned exchange.
ShiftLens, a system from MIT, produces objects whose surface changes with the user's gesture: a bottle turns green when its cap is tightened. No sensor, no screen.
Jazz Grant searched the V&A stores, selected five objects, added photographs and cut the material by hand. The result shows what collage can do that a catalogue cannot.
The first working hack ran HP's Linux codec inside Colima. Thirty-eight hours later, the repository had removed it in favor of patched SpliX and a native CUPS USB backend.
Riksbyggen and BBDO Nordics turned a housing index into three full-scale micro-homes: 1.9 m² in Stockholm, 3.1 in Gothenburg and 4.5 in Umeå.