Steven at 3D Printer Academy spent close to a year tearing up his own desktop pinball machine and starting over. The first one, sold as file packs after a spring Kickstarter that drew about 1,500 backers and roughly $120,000, already proved a strange point. A playable pinball table can come off a normal home printer, run with no wires, and live on a desk. Version 2.0, shown in his latest build video and lined up for a new Kickstarter, treats that first machine as a draft with real limits.
RugOne, the outdoor arm of rugged-phone maker Ulefone, showed the Xsnap 7 Pro at IFA in Berlin on September 5 and opened Kickstarter orders two days later. Early backers can still claim a limited run at €799. Full retail follows this month at $999 in the US and €1,099.99 in Europe, in Sand Dune or Black. A small cube sits flush in a recess on the back, and that cube is meant to leave the phone when the shot needs a helmet, a handlebar, or a chest strap.
LEGO and Toei Animation have put Shenron on an official box. Set 11390, sold as LEGO Icons Dragon Ball Shenron & Goku, is the first product from a new partnership between the brick company and the studio behind the anime, and it goes straight at the summoning that starts almost every wish in the original series. Designers studied animation frames and the classic poses, then built a display model around that one moment: the dragon rising, the kid on the cloud, the seven balls already gathered.
Skill Make spent most of his latest video doing the unglamorous part of high-voltage work: counting wire. A ferrite core got measured, a layered cylinder got designed around it, and a Formlabs printer laid that form down in clear resin. Hair-thin 0.1 mm wire then went on in sections of about 800 turns, tracked with a modified tally counter, until the secondary reached 12,000 turns.
Hyundai parked the fifth-generation Tucson against the Manhattan skyline today, and the shape alone explains why the company is calling this its boldest SUV. Soft curves from the last model give way to flat door skins, squared fender flares, and a stance that reads closer to a trail rig than a mall crossover. Hyundai labels the look Art of Steel. Full-width light bars run across the nose and tail, the daytime lamps sit low in a darkened cluster, and the rear lamps are prism-shaped pieces that stick out from the body. An optional Micro Pixel setup packs 25,600 individual LEDs for sharper beams and simple light animations.