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DIYPod Shuffle starts from a simple local music player, then adds an OLED, menus and three games. Its repository shows how quickly a deliberate constraint can turn back into a platform.
The new Ploopy A+ keeps the Adept bearing mount. That is awkward given complaints about the bearings, but it also preserves replacement parts and community mods.
After a major Nürburgring crash, Black Falcon added a 3D scan between rebuilding its Porsche and sending it back on track. The scanner fixes nothing; it turns bodywork into a measurement problem.
MIT researchers formalized the whole chain from a biological mechanism to an engineering model and fabrication code. The important part is that validated pieces can be recombined.
3DSage built a miniature sequencer around a homemade slap-bracelet wristband. Its interesting idea is bigger than the Y2K styling: shrinking a music interface to the wrist forces every control to justify its space.
Lighthouse Stylus makes a spatial stylus replicable for €151.28, but a proprietary tracker accounts for most of the cost. The project is useful precisely because it shows where its openness stops.
Othisis has tested a 4.5 kN cryogenic engine whose chamber was made with SLM. The useful part of additive manufacturing is not the word “printed”, but internal channels, fewer joints and faster iteration.
“PLA at 210 °C” says very little about sustainable print speed. MeltCalc puts the missing variable back in view: volumetric flow and the conditions under which it was measured.
Underground, familiar frequencies and antennas stop behaving familiarly. Cave radios move towards low frequencies, near-field coupling and antennas that can extend tens of metres across the ground.
Two carriages, delta kinematics, a tool changer and paper feed turn András Vujovits's prototype into something that automates more than the motion of one pen.