A $40 round screen became an aircraft radar and space tracker
A 1.75-inch round display became an aircraft radar, weather station, GMT watch and space dashboard. The interesting part is how its maker designed around 8 MB of PSRAM.
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An old tablet becomes a photo frame without sending your photos to the cloud
Memolio runs the upload server directly on the tablet. Scan a QR code, send photos from a browser, and the images never need to pass through a photo cloud.
Desktop CNC is starting to treat milling as an interface problem
New desktop CNC machines hide some setup behind probes, tool changing, simplified CAM and enclosures. Milling is still much less forgiving than 3D printing.
A Blackwing pencil is baked at 1,000°C, then soaked in hot wax
Blackwing filmed its full pencil-making process. Behind a familiar object: two extrusion stages, a 1,000°C furnace, hot wax, grooved cedar and sometimes more than ten coats of paint.
This black T-shirt reveals an adversarial pattern when heated
CVPR 2026 researchers combine thermochromic dyes, flexible heaters and an adversarial pattern. The shirt stays black at rest, then reveals the attack when heated.
Tom Stanton pushed a trebuchet through the sound barrier one iteration at a time
Tom Stanton reports 346.4 m/s from his latest gravity-powered trebuchet. The entertaining number is only the endpoint of a better story: simulations, cheap prototypes, measurement, breakage and redesign.
Can a typeface with two readings survive on skin?
Decoy Font fits two readings into the same letters. Tattoo artist Olivier Poinsignon is testing what happens when that optical trick leaves the screen and runs into scale, curvature, grey ink and healing.