19.8 Liters on a Screen in Uzbek
Uzbek teenagers wired a flow sensor to a €20 board and handed alerts to Telegram. Their screen shows the day's liters in Uzbek, in a country where 90% of water goes to irrigation.
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Palestine Online: bringing the 1990s Palestinian web back to life
With Palestine Online, Processing Foundation fellow Amad Ansari rebuilds the Palestinian websites of the late 1990s. An archive where every technical choice is also a political one.
This euro proposal hides a security shrimp
Described by its creator as the only French proposal on the shortlist, Design I turns fifteen years of work on flows into vertical euros drawn with felt-tip lines and filled with birds.
Tahira Reid Smith brought her third-grade drawing back to school forty years later
In 1986, Tahira Reid Smith drew a machine to turn Double Dutch ropes. After patents, an engineering career and a long pause, she returned with a working prototype.
He replaced a Pomodoro alert with an arm that physically closes his Mac
After a servo prototype proved too easy to ignore, Lewis Menelaws built a spring-loaded mechanism that physically closes his laptop. The experiment eventually questions its own punishment logic.
Jérémie Berrebi still prefers the moment before anything exists
Net2one, Kima Ventures, seven years of Talmud study, then a return to product building with AI agents: Jérémie Berrebi keeps returning to the beginning.
He built a private intercom for his son, then his son designed the case
Sundararajan Mohan wanted to delay giving his son a phone. He assembled five private intercoms with AI agents, then his 11-year-old son designed the enclosure in FreeCAD.