A 2.9MB song becomes eight QR codes and a paper cassette
Paper Tunes does not really put an MP3 into a QR code. It first compresses music into a neural representation, then turns that data into a physical cartridge and an offline radio payload.
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This $30 camera removes the screen, then misses the frame
Godox’s first camera has no rear screen and no electronic viewfinder — just a transparent optical viewfinder, a light meter, and a price around thirty dollars.
Instagram tried dropping its script wordmark. It stopped looking like Instagram
Instagram’s 2026 refresh is mostly a lesson in constraint: after hundreds of directions, the team discovers what an omnipresent brand can no longer remove.
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.
This alphabet prints the festival while it is still happening
A Billboard Alphabet turns Module Festival into raw material: observe, draw, print, display, then repeat in public.
This house starts by buying the trees next door
In Sinu treats site, nearby resources and furniture as one project. The material’s provenance remains visible all the way down to the objects inside.
In Bali, 25 models reveal what architecture photography hides
Jia CURATED brings together 25 models to make air, water, vegetation and site legible. Shrinking a building can enlarge what we understand about it.
Tablature becomes mechanical gestures on a real guitar
Two printable mechanisms replace the guitarist’s hands: one frets, the other plucks six strings. A digital score ends as acoustic vibration.
A tape-measure bracelet hides an ESP32 sequencer
An ESP32-S3, brass rods, transparent PETG and even a tape-measure wristband: nearly every fabrication choice ends up becoming part of the controls.
CHIP-8 turns 3,232 bytes and 64 × 32 pixels into a creative language
With 3,232 portable bytes, a 64 × 32 monochrome display and XOR drawing, CHIP-8 forces programmers to treat machine limits as graphic tools.