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NerdForge Crafts a Grand Dining Table Hiding a Miniature Blood of Dawnwalker Valley

By Bill Smith November 5, 2026

Martina and Hansi of NerdForge spent two full months turning a simple idea into a dining table large enough for a conference room, yet filled with a complete fantasy valley that only becomes visible once someone leans over the glass set into its surface. After finishing an earlier coffee table that held a tiny library, they wanted something far larger: snow-covered peaks, rivers cutting through dense forest, a medieval town of cramped streets, a gothic cathedral, and a castle perched on a hill at the edge of the settlement.

Zelda Ocarina of Time Switch 2 Remake Runs on PC Emulator One Day Early

By Bill Smith November 4, 2026

Players with a working copy of the Lichii Switch 2 emulator already have the full Ocarina of Time remake booting and running on their PCs, a full day before Nintendo puts the $59.99 title on sale. Footage circulating online shows the game reaching its title screen, loading a save in Kokiri Forest, and letting Link move through Hyrule, all inside a desktop window rather than on the console that ships tomorrow.

DJ Baja Blast’s Desktop Laser Harp Measures Hand Speed While Adding Tilt and Distance Controls

By Bill Smith November 4, 2026

Photo credit: DJ Baja Blast
Derrick, who goes by DJ Baja Blast, spent years turning a lingering idea into a finished desktop instrument after seeing a laser music installation at Meow Wolf in Santa Fe. Version 2 of his laser harp sits in a frame of cherry and walnut, finished with hardwax oil after careful sanding and some epoxy work to close imperfect miter joints. Fourteen low-power lasers aim downward at light-dependent resistors mounted in the base. Each resistor sits in a voltage divider so the Teensy 4.1 microcontroller can watch the analog signal in real time.

Eglantine Switch 2 Emulator Brings Mario Kart World to 60FPS on Desktop PCs

By Bill Smith November 4, 2026

Barely a week after the Nintendo Switch 2 jailbreak surfaced, a free open-source emulator called Eglantine has already shown Mario Kart World holding a steady 60 frames per second on desktop PCs. Developer Camille LaVey started the project as a fork that draws from Eden, Yuzu, and Sudachi, then layered in the experimental Switch 2 work that Takoroka first added to Eden under the name NX2. Written in C++ and built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, the code arrives as frequent pre-releases that land nearly hourly, each one carrying small, concrete fixes rather than vague promises.

Hacksmith Industries Converts Their Office Into a Fully Functional Minecraft Train Network

By Bill Smith November 3, 2026

James Hobson and the team at Hacksmith Industries spent eight months turning one room of their Canadian workshop into a miniature Minecraft landscape where a powered minecart actually runs. The idea started during a regular session with friends on a fresh server. Within a day or two they always laid rails so they could stop walking everywhere. One evening Hobson spotted a backyard model train setup online and carried the thought into the office the next morning. What if the same approach could work at a scale that fit the building itself.

Modders Unlock Half-Price PS5 Performance With the Salience Mining Board Project

By Bill Smith November 2, 2026

Sony raised PS5 console prices twice in recent months, pushing the Digital Edition to roughly six hundred dollars and the disc model even higher. Memory shortages and broader component costs left little room for the usual late-generation discounts. For people willing to handle some assembly and software setup, a community project around leftover mining hardware now delivers comparable silicon for about half that outlay.

Brawl Recompiled Brings Super Smash Bros Brawl to Native PC Play With Mods and Online

By Bill Smith November 1, 2026

Fans of the 2008 Wii fighter can now load Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a regular Windows or Linux program thanks to Brawl Recompiled, an unofficial project by JosiahG that turns the game’s original PowerPC code into native C++.

Modder Boots Real iOS on a Poco F1 Android Smartphone Using Modified XNU Kernel

By Jackson Chung November 1, 2026

Powering on an old Xiaomi Poco F1 now brings up an iOS lock screen instead of the usual Android boot animation. Orailnoor’s recent demonstration shows the phone starting directly into a modified version of Apple’s software, with the home screen, Settings app, Control Center, and basic gestures all responding to touch. The device identifies itself as an iPhone X even though the hardware underneath remains the same Snapdragon 845 board that shipped in 2018.

Bringus Studios Turns a Used Motorola Police Bodycam Into a Surprisingly Capable Gaming Device

By Bill Smith November 1, 2026

A well-used Motorola bodycam arrived at Bringus Studios with visible signs of prior shifts, including residue that suggested long days clipped to an officer’s chest. Model N701A, it runs a version of Android from the mid-2010s labeled Motorola Incident Plus 17. Buttons include a red rocker for recording, a green push-to-talk key, and others that trigger photos or covert mode.

TrashBench Turns a Junked Air Conditioner Radiator Into a Massive RTX 3080 Cooler

By Jackson Chung October 31, 2026

Australian YouTuber TrashBench decided an old outdoor air conditioner unit sitting in the trash deserved a second life as the biggest radiator his test bench had ever seen. He took the outdoor half of a discarded Fujitsu split-system rated for four kilowatts of cooling, emptied the refrigerant, and kept only the parts that matter for water cooling: the large finned coil, its axial fan, and the pump.