Weird Builds
A Real Atari 2600 and a Real CRT, Somehow in a Handheld
Nick Bild's uTari Go puts original Atari chips, cartridges, and a four-inch CRT into a custom printed enclosure. No emulator, no FPGA.
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Science That Matters
Webb's Golden Stellar Nursery Has a Red, Messy Secret
NGC 7129 is a spectacular new Webb image, but the color contrast tells a physical story about young stars, hydrogen, and outflows.
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Science That Matters
A 45-Year-Old Soviet Satellite Has Broken Apart Again
LeoLabs detected another debris-generating event near Meteor 2-7 on October 5. A satellite's useful life can end long before its orbital consequences.
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Inventor Projects
Ten Open-Source Science and Electronics Builds to Explore
Choose a LEGO microscope, ESP32 oscilloscope, laboratory syringe pump, haptic dial, DIY e-reader, synthesizer, or JPL rover using complete credited source documentation.
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Inventor Projects
Four Open-Source Electronics Projects Worth Your Next Weekend
Compare a Wi-Fi weather station, an Arduino MIDI sequencer, a GPS e-paper clock, and CNC-milled PCBs, with complete writeups credited to their original creators.
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Science That Matters
How Many Meteorites Reach Earth? Cameras Are Chasing the Answer
An October 1 research update uses Global Meteor Network fireballs to estimate surviving rocks. The hard part is turning bright streaks into a reliable rate.
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Weird Builds
A Real Science Tricorder, Complete With an Honest List of Bugs
Peter Jansen's open handheld combines visible spectroscopy, thermal imaging, magnetic sensing and more. Its documented limitations make the prototype worth studying.
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Play & Game Design
Cowboi Turns Blender Into a Test Bed for Anime-Style Action
Blender Studio's in-development Open Movie brings drawn marks, custom lighting and a two-camera trick into one stylized production pipeline.
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Future Tech
X-Hinges Prints Motion Sensing Into the Parts That Bend
A glove, a responsive lamp and a flexible controller show how printed conductive materials can turn moving structures into sensors. Calibration is still part of the job.
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Science That Matters
Hubble and Webb Found Tiny Icy Worlds That Keep Their Past
A joint Hubble-Webb survey found 27 faint worlds beyond Neptune. Their colors and scarcity offer a fresh test of how planets get their building blocks.
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Future Tech
Geothermal Has Plenty of Heat. Getting to It Is the Hard Part
DOE's new Geothermal Center of Excellence targets the engineering between underground heat and useful power, from finding resources to working with industry.
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Science That Matters
ESA Followed a Dying Satellite to Learn How Spacecraft Break Apart
Cluster's final spacecraft reentered on September 1. An aircraft full of instruments watched its last seconds to improve the science of satellite disposal.
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