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With 5.2 LTS, Blender moves hair and cloth into Geometry Nodes: an XPBD solver becomes a graph component, constraints become editable data, and a rigid-body engine borrowed from AAA games is on the horizon.
Maker forums are full of Raspberry Pi Pico 2 boards with Apple Lightning cables soldered to them. The reason is usbliter8, a BootROM exploit Apple can never patch, and a wiring job you can do at a desk.
A former lead watch designer, Nosheen Iqbal pulls thread and beads through laser-cut birch, turning Islamic geometry and Pakistani textile traditions into reliefs that forgive no wrong stitch.
MIT prints bacterial colonies the way engineers place electronic components: two transistors, three relays. The computation gets reprogrammed by changing the print pattern, without touching the DNA.
Fifteen years after the last stable release, C-Kermit 11 ships with more than 1,700 automated tests, IPv6 and a fix for a bug introduced in 1992. A look at forty-five years of a file-transfer protocol.
Dissecting the RP2040 scanvideo library, Kevin went from seventeen VGA pins down to six, enough for the ZX Spectrum palette. And one missing black pixel was enough to dim the whole screen.
SPOKE turns 27 copper pads punched into a circuit board into a MIDI controller. The interesting part: the RP2040 has no touch hardware at all, so detection is a discharge time counted in software.
A 3D-printed tactile skin locates a press to within a few millimeters with sixteen electrodes and not a single discrete sensor. A close reading of the process: recipe, results, blind spots.
A factory-calibrated vacuum acts as pump, meter and seal at once: a teardown of the closed system behind most routine blood draws, built on a patent filed in 1947.
A latex scale, a rubberwood cabinet, a bench wearing synthetic skin: with The Devil's Milk, Shahar Livne turns three centuries of rubber's industrial history into furniture you can touch.