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A Flip Clock Becomes a Flip Timer

Posted on June 6, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

A woman in a richly-colored blue head scarf leans over a wooden table looking at the timer between her hands. The timer has a yellow circle on black flip panels on the left and black and white CT scans of a human torso on the right side. The frame is wood, and there is an electric motor on the upper right of the frame and a silver drum on the left of the frame beneath the woman's hand.

Sometimes it’s nice to have a widget to do a single task and avoid getting distracted by the supposed simplicity of doing it with an app on a smartphone. [Dina …read more Continue reading A Flip Clock Becomes a Flip Timer→

Moon Phase Flip Clock is Fantastic

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

A woman in a ball cap and black tank top holds a black and white image of the Moon printed on black acrylic. It can fold and is mounted on a black plastic mechanism with turning knobs affixed to the ends. There are out-of-focus shelves in the background with various items and books on them.

We love clocks, but we especially love unusual timepieces that aren’t just about showing the hour of the day. [Simone Giertz] built a flip clock moon phase tracker for a …read more Continue reading Moon Phase Flip Clock is Fantastic→

A Portable M4 Mac mini

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

The Mac mini is the closest to an Apple-based SBC you can get, so it lends itself to unusual portable computers. [Scott Yu-Jan] is back to tackle a portable build …read more Continue reading A Portable M4 Mac mini→

LLMs Coming for a DNA Sequence Near You

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

An illustration of two translucent blue hands knitting a DNA double helix of yellow, green, and red base pairs from three colors of yarn. Text in white to the left of the hands reads: "Evo 2 doesn't just copy existing DNA -- it creates truly new sequences not found in nature that scientists can test for useful properties."

While tools like CRISPR have blown the field of genome hacking wide open, being able to predict what will happen when you tinker with the code underlying the living things …read more Continue reading LLMs Coming for a DNA Sequence Near You→

DolphinGemma Seeks to Speak to Dolphins

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

Most people have wished for the ability to talk to other animals at some point, until they realized their cat would mostly insult them and ask for better service, but …read more Continue reading DolphinGemma Seeks to Speak to Dolphins→

Playstacean Evolves The PSOne Into The Crab It Was Always Meant to Be

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

Odd hardware designs crop up in art and renders far more frequently than in the flesh, but console modder [GingerOfOz] felt the need to bring [Anh Dang]’s image of the …read more Continue reading Playstacean Evolves The PSOne Into The Crab It Was Always Meant to Be→

Have Li-ion Batteries Gone Too Far?

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

The proliferation of affordable lithium batteries has made modern life convenient in a way we could only imagine in the 80s when everything was powered by squadrons of AAs, or …read more Continue reading Have Li-ion Batteries Gone Too Far?→

Smartwatches Could Flatten the Curve of the Next Pandemic

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

While we’d like to think that pandemics and lockdowns are behind us, the reality is that a warming climate and the fast-paced travel of modern life are a perfect storm …read more Continue reading Smartwatches Could Flatten the Curve of the Next Pandemic→

Flat Pack Toaster Heats Up the Right to Repair

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

A stainless steel metal toaster sits on a white table. Its cord is draped artfully around to the front and the leftmost toast holding apparatus is rotated out from the front of the device like a book pulled down and out from a bookshelf.

The toaster is a somewhat modest appliance that is often ignored until it stops working. Many cheap examples are not made to be easily repaired, but [Kasey Hou] designed a …read more Continue reading Flat Pack Toaster Heats Up the Right to Repair→

Make Ice Spheres in a Copper Press

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

A man in black glasses and a black t-shirt has his arms resting on a grey workbench. Between his opened hands are the two halves of a copper ice press. They are fist-sized copper cylinders. The lower half has large spiraling grooves to aid in the release of excess water from the ice being formed as it melts.

Perfectly clear ice spheres are nifty but can be a bit tricky to make without an apparatus. [Seth Robinson] crafted a copper ice press to make his own. Copper is …read more Continue reading Make Ice Spheres in a Copper Press→