This lamp grows around its own skeleton
GOURDO combines mycelium and luffa to grow part of its structure. More than a “natural” object, the prototype shows what manufacturing with biology forces a designer to control.
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Paper is the fragile part of these lamps. Maison Cédrat made it replaceable
Aura pairs extruded clay with handcrafted washi, but its best detail is quieter: the shade can be replaced without discarding the heavy body of the lamp.
Eight years to record what animators know but rarely write down
Walking with Animators gathers more than 70 artists after eight years of filming. Its value lies less in retelling animation history than in preserving methods, gestures and disagreements.
The Sennheiser MTW5's three batteries swap out with a screwdriver
For the first time on true wireless earbuds, both buds and the case on the Momentum True Wireless 5 accept a user-replaceable battery with a simple screwdriver.
Takuto Ohta didn't design 50 pieces of furniture. He tested 200 logs
log x began with roughly 200 irregular Yoshino cedar logs, not a finished collection. For two months, each cut became a test the next log could inherit.
This Engine Is 3D-Printable. Just Not on One Printer
A thermoacoustic engine is becoming reproducible from published 3D files. The interesting part is not the word printable, but how the design divides heat, pressure and geometry between polymer and metal processes.
Building a Hammond organ to understand how it makes sound
Uri Tuchman built a simplified hand-cranked Hammond to show how spinning steel discs become musical notes — with no digital circuits at all.
Five dollars of components and a breadboard to learn electronics
Glitch'n offers a free electronics course on breadboard for a few dollars. The real product is not the circuit — it's the learning progression.
No one sold the monitor his old machines needed, so he built one
The PixelVision AV1000 MkII combines HDMI, VGA and analogue video around an iPad panel. Its interesting part is not the screen, but the stack of interfaces made into one coherent tool.
The printer is fast. The earth refuses to keep up
3D printing can turn local soil into a building, but the robot only automates deposition. The difficult craft moves into mix design, drying, toolpaths and construction details.