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‘World’s first fully transparent video game console’ is on its way to Kickstarter
By Mark Tyson Published
The first units of the ‘world’s first fully transparent video game console’ are shipping to founders, and now the Arduview project is on its way to Kickstarter.

Desktop UV printers and wild custom builds take over Open Sauce 2026 — $1,700 full-color printers, flash-cured resin, and a rideable speeder bike
By Denise Bertacchi Published
The weird and wild science fair for grown-ups.

3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses an FPGA recreation of the ‘world’s first microprocessor'
By Mark Tyson Published
An FPGA and embedded systems expert has recreated the US Navy’s F-14 Tomcat’s Central Air Data Computer (CADC) in an FPGA. It is demonstrated in a scale 3D printed model aircraft

1994 Sega 32X gets first-person Backrooms game with raycasting engine
By Mark Tyson Published
Free and open source title is strap lined ‘Welcome to the cutting edge of 1994!’

Non-profit investigates Bambu Lab for violating open-source license
By Jowi Morales Last updated
The SFC says that including proprietary code alongside software under AGPLv3 breaks the open-source license, and that Bambu Lab has been doing this for years.

45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in a garage
By Mark Tyson Published
Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Here's 86-DOS 1.00, released on its 45th anniversary, for example.

Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range
By Bruno Ferreira Published
Open-source radar system is 95% cheaper than $250k commercial offerings

3D printer that can mine Bitcoin uses excess heat for temperature control
By Mark Tyson Published
The creator of a 3D printer that mines Bitcoin took part in an interview on the Home Mining Podcast at the weekend.
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