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Project Nomad Packs a Private Internet Into a Fold-Down Cyberdeck

By Jackson Chung September 7, 2026

Photo credit: The DIY Life
You can close the lid, grab the handle, and walk away with Wikipedia, street maps, a media library, and a local language model riding in one printed case. That is the brief Michael Klements set for himself when he wrapped Crosstalk Solutions’ free Project Nomad stack in a 3D-printed rack that behaves like a travel workstation. Nearby phones, tablets, and laptops join a private network and open a normal browser. Pages load from the box in the case, not from a tower somewhere else.

Los Santos Speaks ARM, Modder Gets GTA 5 Running Natively on the Original Nintendo Switch

By Bill Smith September 6, 2026

Rockstar never released Grand Theft Auto V for Nintendo hardware. M0jso and Paralympics Productions completed the project in late August 2026 with an unofficial homebrew build that runs directly on the original Switch. The code from the 2023 leak of GTA V Legacy version 1.0.2699, the same lineage used on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, has been modified and recompiled for ARM, allowing the Tegra X1 and Horizon OS to treat it as a regular title. There is no Linux layer in the middle, no Android wrapper that interprets calls, no stream from another system, and the game is read in the CPU’s native language.

Garmin Venu 3 Still Runs Both the Gym and the Workday in 2026, Here’s Why

By Jackson Chung September 6, 2026

Fitness coaches still name Garmin Venu 3 when someone wants one watch for training, sleep, and a full workday without living next to a charger. The 45mm AMOLED model is currently on sale at $291.90 (was $449.99). A few years later it remains the easy recommendation, now often priced well under launch while Garmin’s newer Venu 4 asks $549 and spends some of that extra money on training tools most casual athletes never open.

Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, Project Hōkūlani Names Two Galaxies Still Mid-Merge

By Jackson Chung September 6, 2026

Photo credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
High school students on Hawaiʻi Island gave NGC 7253 a name that already feels heavier than its catalog number. Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola translates to “The Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life,” and Gemini North on Maunakea recorded the pair with enough reach that pink knots of newborn stars sit in plain view. More than 200 million light-years out, in the stretch of Pegasus known in Hawaiian as Ka Lupe o Kawelo, two spiral galaxies tug at one another across about four million light-years of open space.

120,000 Feet on a Friction Clamp, MAKE. ART. NOW. Flies the Insta360 X6 Near Space

By Bill Smith September 6, 2026

A year of weather balloons, cheap helium, and one brand-new 360 camera produced footage from roughly 110,000 to 120,000 feet. MAKE. ART. NOW. spent twelve months lofting Insta360 gear on 1,500-gram latex balloons aimed at a 115,000-foot burst, and the freshly launched X6 became the main camera for the last of those flights. Dual 1/1.1-inch sensors, 8K recording, 10-bit color, and horizon lock went along for a ride that included minus-70-degree air, a metal clamp that let go at 17,000 feet, and a neighborhood car crash captured in 360.