You put your phone down. It keeps talking
LEAK turns a phone’s network traffic into light and sound. The crucial detail is that the sculpture does not detect the act of putting the phone down: it becomes the phone’s route to the internet.
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He set out to make one sculpture a day. Missing four is the interesting part
Damien Hoar de Galvan set out to make a sculpture every day in 2024. He finished 362 across 366 days, enough for scraps, delayed ideas and a short deadline to become a method.
This 8.8 kg lamp entrusts its light to paper
At Maison Cédrat, clay carries the load, washi diffuses the light, and a set of quiet interfaces lets the shade move or be replaced. The interesting part sits between the materials.
PicoCamera can see 1600×1200. Its RAM sees rather less
PicoCamera brings OV2640, OV3660 and OV7670 capture to RP2040/RP2350. For raw images, though, the real ceiling is not the sensor but the framebuffer.
This Casio hosts a BBS. The network lives somewhere else
A Casio VX-4 runs a BBS in BASIC while a Pi Zero W supplies its Internet connection. The arrangement forces a precise question: what does it mean to host a server?
This DIYPod is called Shuffle. It brought back the screen, menus and even three games
DIYPod Shuffle starts from a simple local music player, then adds an OLED, menus and three games. Its repository shows how quickly a deliberate constraint can turn back into a platform.
The Ploopy A+ keeps its old bearing mount. That is almost good news
The new Ploopy A+ keeps the Adept bearing mount. That is awkward given complaints about the bearings, but it also preserves replacement parts and community mods.
This house only floats when the river forces it to
An amphibious house sits on the ground most of the time, then rises with a flood. Making it buoyant is not the hardest part: guides, utilities and access all have to tolerate metres of vertical movement.
A ₹45,000 extruder still does not turn a bin of waste into filament
NIT Rourkela patented a portable extruder reported at roughly ₹45,000. The more useful question is what still surrounds it: sorting, washing, drying, shredding and qualifying recycled plastic.
The yeast is deactivated before it becomes a 3D-printed panel
At Chalmers, baker’s yeast is not kept alive for effect. It is heated, deactivated, mixed with cellulose and printed at room temperature into lightweight architectural sheets.