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Generatively-Designed Aerospike Test Fired

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

The aerospike engine holds great promise for spaceflight, but for various reasons, has remained slightly out of reach for decades. But thanks to Leap 71, the technology has moved one …read more Continue reading Generatively-Designed Aerospike Test Fired→

AI Might Kill Us All (With Carbon Emissions)

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

So-called artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage right now between your grandma asking ChatGPT how to code in Python or influencers making videos without having to hire extras, but …read more Continue reading AI Might Kill Us All (With Carbon Emissions)→

DIY Book Lamp is a Different Take on the Illuminated Manuscript

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

People have been coming up with clever ways to bring light to the darkness since we lived in caves, so it’s no surprise we still love finding interesting ways to …read more Continue reading DIY Book Lamp is a Different Take on the Illuminated Manuscript→

Hack Turns Nissan Leaf into Giant RC Car

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

Two images side by side. One shows a laptop opened to a map view with a vehicle model showing a vehicles location. A transparent overlay shows various blue-ish buttons for sending commands to the vehicle. The image on the right is of the interior of a Nissan Leaf. Visible are the very edge of the steering wheel, the center dash including the infotainment display, vents, and shifter, and part of the right side of the dash. Passenger and driver legs are just barely visible at the bottom of the image.

As cars increasingly become computers on wheels, the attack surface for digital malfeasance increases. [PCAutomotive] has shared its exploit for turning the 2020 Nissan Leaf into 1600 kg RC car. …read more Continue reading Hack Turns Nissan Leaf into Giant RC Car→

NREL Maps Out US Data Infrastructure

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

A map of the United States showing a series of interconnected lines in white, red, orange, yellow, and green to denote fiber optic and electrical transmission lines. Dots of white, orange, and yellow denote the location of the data centers relative to nearby metropolitan centers.

Spending time as wee hackers perusing the family atlas taught us an appreciation for a good map, and [Billy Roberts], a cartographer at NREL, has served up a doozy with …read more Continue reading NREL Maps Out US Data Infrastructure→

Hacking T Cells to Treat Celiac Disease

Posted on June 12, 2025 by Navarre Bartz

As there is no cure for celiac disease, people must stick to a gluten free diet to remain symptom-free. While this has become easier in recent years, scientists have found some …read more Continue reading Hacking T Cells to Treat Celiac Disease→

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→