Prusa launches a new generation without asking owners to discard the old one
The XL+, CORE One L+ and CORE One+ Gen 2 add new hardware, while Prusa is also preparing upgrade paths for people who already own the previous machines.
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In Hannover, the machines wait for an audience before the show begins
A flower made from car hoods only spits fire when enough people gather. A five-metre metal bird also asks visitors to act. The machine becomes social.
At Zayed National Museum, wool becomes research before it becomes heritage
Agata Kurzela Studio treated the museum interiors as material research: raw wool, trials, full-scale mock-ups and collaboration with local makers.
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.
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.