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Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Remains Tough to Beat Across Every Generation

By Bill Smith September 26, 2026

Nintendo shipped the Switch Pro, priced at $55.97 (was $80), a while back, the same day the original Switch arrived, and the shape has barely needed defending since. You get a one-piece gamepad measuring 106 millimeters tall, 152 millimeters wide, and 60 millimeters thick, weighing about 246 grams. Offset analog sticks sit in the familiar Xbox arrangement, with a plus-shaped direction pad under the left stick and the four face buttons above the right. Both sticks click. Capture, Home, Plus, and Minus land where muscle memory already lives. Plastic feels dense without turning heavy, and the grips stay comfortable through long docked sessions that split Joy-Cons never quite manage.

Kimera EVO37 Number Eighteen Brings Lancia Rally Glory to Zoute Auction

By Bill Smith September 26, 2026

Four decades after Walter Röhrl and Markku Alén drove Lancia’s Rally 037 to the 1983 World Rally Championship, a small Italian workshop in Cuneo has given that last rear-drive title winner a second life. Kimera Automobili, run by former rally driver Luca Betti from Villa Kimera about 100 kilometers south of Turin, limited the EVO37 to 37 cars. Number 018 now sits in Broad Arrow’s catalog as lot 158 for the Zoute Concours Auction on Friday, October 9, 2026, at Approach Golf in Knokke-Heist, Belgium.

StratoBuilds’ AI Fish Tank Packs a 14 Million-Parameter Fish Brain in Your Pocket

By Bill Smith September 26, 2026

Real water and live fish refuse to share a pocket without making a mess. Strato Doumanis, who posts as StratoBuilds, built Pocket Tank instead: a 1.8 inch AMOLED aquarium you can hold in one hand, where every high level choice a fish makes comes from a language model that lives entirely on the board.

ProfessorBoots 3D Printed FPV Excavator Puts You Straight in the Operator Seat

By Jackson Chung September 26, 2026

ProfessorBoots has tons of experience 3D-printing remote excavators that can climb boxes, scoop dirt, and crush cans. His latest version parks a three-axis camera in the cab and wires a chair that copies the layout of a full size machine, so a look to the left turns the camera left and a pair of pedals drive the tracks. The result is a backyard digger you operate as if you were sitting in a Caterpillar, only without diesel and without twenty acres.

Claude Opus 5.5 Recreates Fortnite From Scratch as Lighting Outruns the Models

By Bill Smith September 25, 2026

Minimunch opened Claude Opus 5.5 with a blunt claim and a harder job: make playable games from scratch, starting with Fortnite Battle Royale. About three and a half hours later, a browser build was running on very high settings, complete with a battle bus drop, loot boxes, building, a storm that actually kills people, and two wins in two matches. Character drawings and map pieces still look unfinished if you stare at them. Color and light do the rescue work. Gradation across the island is dense enough that the whole scene reads richer than the models deserve, which is exactly the gap you flagged.