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50,000 Volts Versus Namib Fog, Plasma Channel’s High-Voltage Water Hunt

By Jackson Chung September 3, 2026

Plasma Channel packed a year of garage experiments into checked luggage and flew 14,000 kilometers to Namibia to see if 50,000 volts could pull drinkable water out of desert fog. The unit uses electrostatic precipitation: a high-voltage wire ionizes tiny water droplets so they race toward grounded mesh or rods, condense, and drip into a collector. Early two-stake versions ran at lower voltage and 39 watts. Later builds grew to a three-stake, double-stacked layout four times as wide, added solar charging, 3D-printed resin joints for travel, and a timer that cycled two minutes on and three minutes off between 6 and 8 a.m.

Sony Unveils Limited Edition DualSense Controllers for Grand Theft Auto VI

By Bill Smith September 3, 2026

Sony used today’s State of Play to show two limited-edition DualSense wireless controllers built around Grand Theft Auto VI. The DualSense Wireless Controller, Grand Theft Auto VI Black Limited Edition and DualSense Wireless Controller, Grand Theft Auto VI White Limited Edition are both inspired by Vice City, with one side designed for sunny seaside days and the other with neon nights. They arrive on the same day as the game, November 19.

Hands-On with Pandora, the 2010 Pocket Linux Machine With Dual Nubs and a Full Keyboard

By Jackson Chung September 3, 2026

Forum regulars who had sold and played the GP32 and GP2X decided those machines left too much on the table, so Craig Rothwell, Fatih Kilic, Michael Mrozek (known as EvilDragon), and Michael Weston started sketching a successor, called Pandora, that mixed a proper Linux desktop with real game controls. Dave Cancilier shaped the clamshell case and keymat.

ZX81 16K RAM Pack Features Sixteen Kilobytes That Lived and Died by the Edge Connector

By Jackson Chung September 2, 2026

Sinclair shipped the ZX81 in 1981 with a Z80, an 8K ROM, and one kilobyte of static RAM. After the screen buffer and system variables took their share, a BASIC listing had only a few hundred bytes left to stand in. A black plastic box that slid onto the rear edge connector promised sixteen times that space. For a lot of first-time owners, that pack was the line between a curiosity and a machine you could actually write on.

Ten Feet Tall and Still Playing, NickBuilds’ Working Giant Game Boy Color

By Bill Smith September 2, 2026

Nick Alvarez, the electrical engineer and maker who posts as NickBuilds and Nickbuildstuff, decided a regular Game Boy Color was too small for what he had in mind. He built one that stands ten feet tall and still accepts button presses, volume twists, and game input the way the 1998 original did.