Brussels rebuilds The Great Wave with more than 700,000 flowers
Hiro Sugiyama digitally reworked Hokusai's print. Hundreds of thousands of dahlias now turn it into a temporary 1,680-square-metre image.
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One webpage can tell humans and scrapers two different stories
ShieldFont uses OpenType substitution to show one text to humans and hand another to scrapers. It is not a lock. It is friction.
Can low-tech become technical democracy?
A year-long study in northern France explores what low-tech changes in our collective relationship to technology: reappropriation, commons, and real limits too.
What's inside a five-dollar digital caliper
A teardown shows how a cheap caliper measures by capacitance, and why its battery drains itself in the drawer.
The IBM prototype nobody could identify, brought back piece by piece
A rare late-1980s IBM prototype, the 7496 Executive Workstation, comes back to life: floppy drive fixed, hard drive added, sound card grafted on.
Magnetic microrobots pull microplastics out of soil
MXene flakes made magnetic travel through soil to capture microplastics, then are recovered with a magnet. Shown in the lab, not yet in the field.
FreeCAD files finally get thumbnails in a self-hosted 3D library
The open-source Manyfold app can now render FreeCAD project thumbnails. Another small brick for makers who want to keep their 3D library under their own control.
At this studio, disagreement is part of the method
OnePlus Studio does not flatten four backgrounds and four sets of references into a house style. The team lets them collide, then slows down the beginning of each project before deciding what to make.
A 2 mm sheet of aluminium answers one question: what day is it?
Ben Ferrick’s Day Display solves a tiny problem with a 2 mm sheet of milled and bent aluminium. At Stupid Engineering, the manufacturing constraint is the product language.
One ESP32 can bring old Tasmota devices into Apple Home
TasmoShelf controls Tasmota devices directly over the local network. Recent ESP32 hardware can join Apple Home through Matter, while one ESP32 can bridge older ESP8266 devices.