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Vortex Spins Two LED Panels Into a Fully Walkable Three Dimensional Volumetric Display

By Jackson Chung November 6, 2026

Maker Ancient built Vortex as a swept volumetric display that hangs a genuine three-dimensional image in midair. Two flat LED panels sit back to back inside a clear plastic globe roughly three hundred millimeters across. Both panels turn together around a vertical axis at high speed while a Raspberry Pi 4 rides along with them and updates every pixel in time with the rotation. Persistence of vision turns the moving lights into a solid looking object that stays fixed in place no matter which way you circle the globe.

Ferrari 499P Modificata Auction Brings Unrestricted Le Mans Power to a Select Few

By Bill Smith November 6, 2026

Ferrari built the 499P Modificata so a handful of its best customers could drive something that shares almost every important piece of engineering with the prototype that took overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Chassis number 21, finished in its original red livery, has never turned a wheel beyond the factory shakedown runs that confirmed everything worked. Gooding Christie’s is offering it on November 8 in Geneva with an estimate in excess of CHF 7,500,000 ($9.2 million), the first time any Modificata has reached a public sale.

HOA A1 Camera Turns an Open Frame Into a Tool for Trusted Everyday Photos

By Jackson Chung November 6, 2026

Lutra, a small South Korean startup, just introduced its Humans of Authenticity brand with a camera that looks more like a handheld window than a typical point-and-shoot. The HOA A1 places a 26mm f/1.75 prime lens and 16-megapixel Sony sensor right in the middle of a large rectangular frame you hold up to your face. Both eyes stay open and look straight through the empty space around the lens, so the person in front of you sees your eyes while you see them. That arrangement keeps the interaction direct instead of forcing everyone to wait while someone checks a rear screen.

Shane Wighton’s Multi-Jet Dog Washer Ends the Muddy Shake Problem for Good

By Bill Smith November 6, 2026

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 Bronco Frostwarden Hits SEMA with 1200 Horsepower Arctic Rescue Power

By Bill Smith November 5, 2026

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.