On embedded Linux, logs are memory you have to design before failure
A deployed device cannot record everything. Its logging system must decide in advance which evidence will survive the next incident.
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The PS Vita becomes an instrument through the controls that constrained it
DS8 Drumstream does not revive the PS Vita through nostalgia. It turns its buttons, sticks and limits into an instrument grammar.
TR-808: three ways to keep a machine that no longer changes alive
Around the TR-808, repair, extension and reconstruction are not three kinds of nostalgia. They are three ways of deciding what an instrument should remain capable of being.
Eight electrodes turn a watch back into a gesture sensor
EITWatch places eight electrodes under a watch to read gestures from changes in wrist impedance. Its value is less the 92% headline than the tradeoff between geometry, calibration and everyday use.
The real product begins after all 700 clocks ship
A Poem/1 update reveals the quiet work after a small connected object ships: fixing, recovering, distributing and documenting.
Ten years later, Boulogne’s school shows biodiversity is also designed through maintenance
A decade-long review of the School of Sciences and Biodiversity records 345 species and shows that a living building depends on use and maintenance as much as its façade.
This chair’s scraps return in the next one
With PADNOS and Royal Technologies, Haworth turns black Fern plastics into pellets and new parts, while factory scrap also travels back into the same loop.
The 3D printer bed limit becomes a construction rule
A full-size bag will not fit on many accessible printers. MIKU answers with one flexible brick that repeats, connects without glue and can be replaced individually.
To film a potato peeling itself, he had to build a steam machine
Stuff Made Here wanted to see industrial steam peeling happen. The hard part was not the potato, but building an observable prototype without turning the workshop into a projectile.
Wi-Fi reflections can reveal breathing without a camera
An ESP32-S3 and Raspberry Pi read changes in the Wi-Fi channel to distinguish motion, presence and breathing, while documenting what the system cannot infer.