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$30 Clamp Meter Runs Full Doom Episode On Record Low Memory

By Bill Smith October 23, 2026

A thirty-dollar FNIRSI DMC-100 clamp meter now hosts a complete, playable episode of DOOM, complete with all nine maps, the title screen, intermissions, the finale, the menu, and four save slots. Polish developer Artur Bieniek made this possible by adapting the doomgeneric engine, drawn from id Software’s source release, to the meter’s Artery AT32F415 microcontroller. That chip runs at 150 MHz, yet it provides only 32 kilobytes of RAM, an amount smaller than the 64,000 bytes needed for a single original Doom frame. Bieniek’s port therefore ranks among the leanest versions of the game ever made, beating the previous low of 64 kilobytes recorded on a Neo Geo release.

Maker Builds Working iPhone 14 Pro Inside a Fully 3D Printed Housing

By Jackson Chung October 23, 2026

Phone Repair Guru set out to answer a straightforward question: could parts pulled from a broken iPhone 14 Pro sit inside a housing made entirely on a 3D printer and still produce a phone that boots and functions. To push the idea further, the tools used for the assembly would also come off the printer, with only the metal screwdriver bits kept real. A Bambu Lab P2S Combo handled the printing, but designing a housing precise enough to hold everything required outside help. PatoCube handled the 3D scanning of original housings and the subsequent design work, going back and forth until the tiny internal details lined up.

Jetson One Named Astro Becomes First Flying Police Vehicle at Florida Polytechnic University

By Bill Smith October 23, 2026

Florida Polytechnic University’s police department took delivery of a single-seat electric aircraft this summer and painted it in school colors with “Police” markings along the frame. Officers, including Chief Aaron Murray, completed training on the machine, which carries the registration N911FP and the nickname Astro. The name nods both to astronomy and to the dog that flew around in the old Jetsons cartoons.

Rayly Retro Discovers Surprising 3D Performance on an Eight Dollar Dell Axim X50v

By Jackson Chung October 22, 2026

Buying a 2004 Dell Axim X50v for eight dollars and expecting usable 3D gaming feels like a long shot from the start. Rayly Retro picked up one of these Pocket PCs anyway, drawn by the Intel 2700G graphics chip that came with dedicated video memory and was meant to push sharper visuals than the usual software rendering of the era. Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition sits on the device, paired with a 624 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, and a 3.7-inch VGA screen that once stood out among its peers.

X-Hinges Software From MIT Helps Designers Create Self Aware Everyday Objects That Respond to Touch

By Jackson Chung October 22, 2026

Disney films once filled theaters with clocks, cups, and toys that seemed to notice people and answer back. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, working with Tianjin University, have built a design tool that moves that idea out of animation and into a 3D printer. Called X-Hinges, the software lets someone customize an ordinary object, then automatically embeds sensors so the finished piece can detect how a hand presses, pinches, or bends it and react in real time.