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The Ayn Odin Handheld Console, the Gaming Gods are Pleased…

Bursting onto the handheld gaming scene like a shooting star illuminating the night sky the Ayn Odin captured the attention of gamers around the world as soon as it was launched on Kickstarter in 2021. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect with the explosion of retro gaming and the thirst for more powerful handhelds able to play GameCube, PS2 and other hard to emulate consoles, especially…

DIY Perks has done several PS5 customizations but his latest is just on a whole other level. With hand-built water cooling and heat spreaders, outer casing that acts as a heatsink and external power supply and radiators this is a no compromise dream machi

Many of us love to customize our favourite possessions, sometimes its as simple as adding a skin or a case to protect them and make them ours. At the opposite end of the spectrum are prolific customizers such as DIY Perks, who has been at it again, taking something already very cool, in this case a PS5 and creating a true work of art. DIY Perks has done several PS5 customizations but his latest…

The Floppy Drive Orchestra, Floppotron 3.0.

Music brings out the creativity in us all, not only the creation of music itself but also the instruments we use to create that music. Here at Byte Chronicles one of our favourite unusual instruments for making music is the floppy drive orchestra. This highly unusual orchestra consists of an ensemble of abandon computer hardware. A nostalgic musical flashback to the computer hardware from years…

The Magnetic Gear Box and the Laws of Magnetic Attraction

When it comes to performing mechanical work there are two essential ingredients, the engine, and the gear box. The combined forces of electricity and magnetism are slowly taking over the way we power the engines of our machines, but gearboxes have stubbornly remained mechanical, resisting the electro-magnetic revolution of the last century. (more…)

The Cube by Michael Cann

The flexibility of LED’s is allowing artists and engineers to find entirely new was to work with light. Michael Cann is one such mad scientist who has managed to push the limit of what can be done with LED’s and the results are amazing. After experimenting with LED panels Michael managed to combine 6 LED panels containing a matrix of 64 x 64 LED’s into a single self-enclosed LED cube. A cube…

Kinetic Sculptures, the Art of Motion…

Art takes many forms, as the expression of our inner voice it is bound only by the imagination of the artist, taking any shape in order express that inner dialogue. Artists who choose kinetic sculptures as their form of expression use the art of motion as their voice. Creating visually stunning installations that generate optical illusions through unusual forms, internal shapes, and…

No longer do we need to wander what might have been, now we can just fake it, deep fake it.

Burt Reynolds famously turned down the James Bond role in 1970, a decision he went on to regret for many years. But we need not suffer the regrets of the past thanks to the incredible technology behind Deep Fakes. In our humble opinion one of the most hilarious deep fakes is the extremely convincing Burt Reynolds in James Bond Dr No. A deep fake that instigates laughter and awkward stares in…

Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, Kinetic Life Forms…

One of the great mysteries for a curios mind is the nature of life. Artists, scientists and ponderers alike all search for answers. Theo Jansen falls into all these categories, and he has an especially interesting technique for investigating this very seminal question, he creates living kinetic sculptures. Placing himself in the shoes of the gods he hopes to become wiser by encountering the…