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Lighthouse Stylus makes a spatial stylus replicable for €151.28, but a proprietary tracker accounts for most of the cost. The project is useful precisely because it shows where its openness stops.
MUJI is now selling furniture recovered from old Japanese houses and repaired without systematically erasing its traces. Scratches, joints and previous repairs become a material archive.
With Transparent Mechanism, Kokuyo exposes the gears, blades and moving parts inside three office tools. Transparency becomes useful when it actually explains what the object is doing.
Othisis has tested a 4.5 kN cryogenic engine whose chamber was made with SLM. The useful part of additive manufacturing is not the word “printed”, but internal channels, fewer joints and faster iteration.
“PLA at 210 °C” says very little about sustainable print speed. MeltCalc puts the missing variable back in view: volumetric flow and the conditions under which it was measured.
Underground, familiar frequencies and antennas stop behaving familiarly. Cave radios move towards low frequencies, near-field coupling and antennas that can extend tens of metres across the ground.
Two carriages, delta kinematics, a tool changer and paper feed turn András Vujovits's prototype into something that automates more than the motion of one pen.
Biyubi ran on a homebuilt Am29000 computer. Seeing it again in 2026 required rebuilding the emulator, storage, video, C environment and a network bridge around the recovered software.
On a complex film camera, the service manual may not be enough. Repair also depends on photographs, parts lists, measurements, remade components and notes left by people who have already opened the machine.
Graph paper, a 32 × 32 grid, actual-size preview and finally hexadecimal for ROM: the first Macintosh icons came from a workflow where drawing and technical constraint were inseparable.