Shane Wighton of Stuff Made Here grew tired of the same backyard routine. His dog would find the one muddy spot in the yard, then shake hard enough to coat everyone nearby. Hand washing only moved the mess from the animal onto the people holding the hose. So he built a car-wash style machine that scans a set of nozzles along the dog while keeping owners out of the spray zone.
Ford rolled a single Bronco into SEMA this week built specifically for the kind of winter work most vehicles never attempt. Named Frostwarden, the one-off sits on portal gear lifts from 74Weld, runs 42-inch BFGoodrich tires on custom 18-inch Weld bead-lock wheels, and carries a supercharged 7.3-liter V8 that produces more than 1,200 horsepower and more than 1,000 lb-ft of torque on race fuel. The whole package was assembled by Kincer Chassis in Tennessee as a demonstration of what Ford Racing Parts and a short list of partners can do when the brief is simply to go as far as the platform allows.
DJI released the Matrice 5T this week as a folding enterprise aircraft that carries a native 1280 by 1024 thermal camera, a rotating LiDAR unit, and millimeter-wave radar in an airframe rated IP55. The combination supports missions in low light, rain, fog, or dust where earlier compact models relied mainly on cameras. With a battery installed the aircraft weighs 2,239 grams and folds to 335 by 155 by 203 millimeters, so it still fits in a vehicle or case while adding roughly a kilogram of mass over the Matrice 4T.
Motorola has spent years selling capable phones that rarely challenged the highest prices, yet the Signature 27 arrives at $1,599.99 for the sole US configuration of 12GB of memory and 512GB of storage. Preorders open November 19 with general sales beginning November 26, placing it squarely against the top Galaxy and iPhone models without any folding hinge to justify the cost.
Anyone stepping into multi color 3D printing for the first time often expects a long list of adjustments and failed attempts before anything useful comes out. Bambu Lab’s P1S paired with the Automatic Material System (AMS), priced at $479 (was $549), changes that experience right away. Unbox the combo, run through a short assembly that takes about fifteen minutes, load up to four spools into the AMS unit, and the printer handles bed leveling, vibration checks, and basic calibration on its own. From that point a phone app or computer program called Bambu Studio sends jobs wirelessly.