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Tom Pearson’s anodising bath ended up designing his furniture
In 10,000 Rivets, the size of an anodising tank becomes a format rule, and the rivets needed afterwards become the visible language of assembly.
OpenMANET trades extreme battery life for a real LAN
OpenMANET uses Wi-Fi HaLow, 802.11s and batman-adv to build an IP network without infrastructure. More bandwidth comes with a very different trade-off from LoRa.
This firmware was not dumped. It was rebuilt from what the CPU read
Matthew Alt reconstructs a firmware image by observing SPI reads during boot. Each transaction reveals an address and bytes, while any region the CPU never requests remains unknown.
They grew 100 images instead of drawing them
For Hundred Pieces, Robocobra Quartet turned one hundred mould cultures into a visual system. The frame was strict. Whatever grew inside it was not.
This titanium cube floats. Its bulk density explains almost nothing
RMIT makes a titanium lattice float while leaving its large cells open. The trick lies inside the hollow struts, and in choosing the right density to count.
This Ape camper saves 130 kg for water, batteries and a bed
Furlani’s Piaggio Ape carries a 70 kg shell before interior equipment, versus the project’s 200 kg fiberglass reference. The saved 130 kg becomes budget for everything else.
A robot builds a laser, then realigns it when you knock it out
At MIT, a robot assembles ten optical components, corrects placement errors and restores laser alignment after a disturbance.
Cloudflare wants to compress its cache once, not recompress the Internet on every request
Cache Transcoding stores some text objects as zstd inside the cache, keeps them compressed between data centers, then decodes them at the edge. The bet is to spend a little CPU to buy much more effective cache.
MIT builds the photonic chip on silicon, then removes almost all the silicon
The process keeps the wafer rigid through the steps that need precision and foundry tooling, then removes the original support and transfers the optical layers onto transparent film. Flexibility arrives at the end.