Paul Lagier builds spare, printable objects on YouTube, and Shiptracker began as a present. His girlfriend already followed cargo ships, tankers, and ferries on websites, reading destinations, speeds, and origins the way other people refresh a weather app. He wanted that ritual to live on a desk without a phone in hand, so he boxed a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a 7.5-inch Waveshare e-paper panel, and two rotary encoders into a pale 3D-printed shell that draws almost no power between screen updates.
Mitsubishi spent the late 1980s and early 1990s stretching the limits of glass and electron guns until a 40-inch direct-view tube became something you could actually buy. The CS4307 belongs to that short, expensive run of sets that sat at the top of the company’s American lineup in the mid-1990s. Few other makers even tried a tube this large for living-room use. Projection sets offered more inches for less money, yet they never matched the punch of a real cathode-ray picture. Owners who wanted the biggest possible image without a projector chose this family of Mitsubishi consoles and paid accordingly.
Merlin Entertainments and Mojang Studios used Saturday’s Minecraft Live stream to confirm Minecraft World Hotel will open in 2027 at Chessington World of Adventures in south-west London, inside a new £50 million land called Minecraft World. The stay sits beside the first official Minecraft theme park land, a project first sketched in March 2026 and now far enough along that construction footage shows coaster track already going in.
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Forest monitoring usually means a small quadcopter hanging in place while its motors chew through a battery in a few dozen minutes. Noise follows the same schedule. A machine that can grab a branch and cut power would last far longer and bother far fewer animals, yet the last few inches of that landing have wrecked plenty of earlier designs.
Scott Manley teaches orbital mechanics through Kerbal Space Program, and he also DJs. For his latest project, he wired those two lives together on a whim, writing a small Python program that reads MIDI events from a portable mixer and turns them into spacecraft commands. The question he set out to answer was simple enough to print in all caps: can you fly a spaceship using a DJ mixer? After one messy airplane test and one surprisingly clean lunar landing, the answer was yes.