Sonuscore offer Time Textures Expanded Time Textures Expanded builds on the concept of its predecessor, and includes a whole slew of new source sounds and processing capabilities.

Paul Di'Anno RememberedIron Maiden's early singer, Paul Di'Anno, has passed away at the age of 66. Greg Prato interviewed Di'Anno at length for the book Iron Maiden: 80 81, which thoroughly studies this early era of the band.

Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuationAI search engine Perplexity is in fundraising talks and hopes to raise around $500 million at an $8 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. If a deal happens with those terms, it would more than double Perplexity’s valuation from its $3 billion valuation when it raised from SoftBank over the summer. The WSJ […]
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Crypto founders should stop chasing narratives and start creating themFounders and entrepreneurs need to stick to their guns if they want to make a difference in the industry.

DIY Air Bearings, No Machining RequiredSeeing a heavy load slide around on nearly frictionless air bearings is pretty cool; it’s a little like how the puck levitates on an air hockey table. Commercial air bearings are available, of course, but when you can build these open-source air bearings, why bother buying?
One of the nice things about [Diffraction Limited]’s design is that these bearings can be built using only simple tools. No machining is needed past what can be easily accomplished with a hand drill, thanks to some clever 3D-printed jigs that allow you to drill holes with precision into stainless steel discs you can buy on the cheap. An extremely flat surface is added to the underside of these discs thanks to another jig, some JB Weld epoxy, and a sheet of float glass to serve as an ultra-flat reference. Yet more jigs make it easy to scribe air channels into the flat surface and connect them to the air holes through a bit of plaster of Paris, which acts as a flow restriction. The video below shows the whole process and a demo of the bearings in action.
[Diffraction Limited] mentions a few applications for these air bearings, but the one that interests us most is their potential use in linear bearings; a big CNC cutter using these air bearings would be pretty cool. We seen similar budget-friendly DIY air bearings before, including a set made from used graphite EDM electrodes.

Humble Bundle Now Offers SampleTank 4 Max V2 for $30 until October 24
Humble Bundle recently extended and expanded the IK Multimedia Pro Sound Suite deal and now offers the SampleTank 4 Max V2 virtual instrument workstation for just $30, down from a list price of $300. The timer on the promo page indicates that the deal will expire at 1 AM on October 24, 2024. Humble Bundle is [...]
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Figuring Out the Most Efficient Way to Reuse Bags of DesiccantEveryone knows those small bags of forbidden “Do not eat” candy that come with fresh rolls of FDM filament as well as a wide range of other products. Containing usually silica gel but sometimes also bentonite clay, these desiccant bags are often either thrown away or tossed into bags of FDM filament with a ‘adding one can’t hurt’ attitude. As [Stefan] over at CNC Kitchen recently figured out, adding an already saturated bag of desiccant into e.g. an airtight container with a freshly dried spool of filament can actually make the humidity in the container spike as the desiccant will start releasing moisture. So it’s best to dry those little bags if you intend to reuse them, but what is the best way?
Among the ‘safe’ contenders are an oven, a filament dryer and the ‘filament drying’ option of [Stefan]’s Bambu Lab FDM printer. These managed to remove most of the moisture from the desiccant in a few hours. The more exciting option is that of a microwave, which does the same in a matter of minutes, requiring one or more ~5 minute sessions at low power, which effectively also used less power than the other options. Among the disadvantages are potentially melting bags, silica beads cracking, the bentonite clay desiccant heating up rather dangerously and the indicator dye in silica beads may be damaged by the rapid heating.
After all of this testing, it would seem that there are many good options to reuse those desiccant bags with a bit of care, although for those who happen to have a vacuum chamber nearby, that might be an even faster option.

Celviano AP-300 & AP-S200 from Casio Casio's latest digital pianos promise to deliver an immersive playing experience similar to the higher-range Celvianos, but at a lower cost. 

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is reportedly fundraising for a new AI startupMira Murati, the OpenAI CTO who announced her departure last month, is raising VC funding for a new AI startup, according to Reuters. This startup will reportedly focus on building AI products based on proprietary models and could raise more than $100 million in this round. At the time of her departure, Murati wrote on […]
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Make Your Own Remy the Rat This Halloween[Christina Ernst] executed a fantastic idea just in time for Halloween: her very own Remy the rat (from the 2007 film Ratatouille). Just like in the film Remy perches on her head and appears to guide her movements by pulling on hair as though operating a marionette. It’s a great effect, and we love the hard headband used to anchor everything, which also offers a handy way to route the necessary wires.
Behind Remy are hidden two sub-micro servos, one for each arm. [Christina] simply ties locks of her hair to Remy’s hands, and lets the servos do the rest. Part of what makes the effect work so well is that Remy is eye-catching, and the relatively small movements of Remy’s hands are magnified and made more visible in the process of moving the locks of hair.
Originally Remy’s movements were random, but [Christina] added an MPU6050 accelerometer board to measure vertical movements of her own arm. She uses that sensor data to make Remy’s motions reflect her own. The MPU6050 is economical and easy to work with, readily available on breakout boards from countless overseas sellers, and we’ve seen it show up in all kinds of projects such as this tiny DIY drone and self-balancing cube.
Want to make your own Remy, or put your own spin on the idea? The 3D models and code are all on GitHub and if you want to see more of it in action, [Christina] posts videos of her work on TikTok and Instagram.
[via CBC]

ECB paper claims older Bitcoin holders are exploiting new holdersSince its introduction in 1999, the euro has lost approximately 85% of its value against gold due to monetary inflation.

A Robust Guide To The Xbox 360 Glitch HackThe Xbox 360 was a difficult console to jailbreak. Microsoft didn’t want anyone running unsigned code, and darn if they didn’t make it difficult to do so. However, some nifty out of the box thinking and tricky techniques cracked it open like a coconut with a crack in it. For the low down, [15432] has a great in-depth article on how it was achieved. The article is in Russian, so you’ll want to be armed with Google Translate for this one.
The article gets right into the juice of how glitch attacks work—in general, and with regards to the Xbox 360. In the specific case of the console, it was all down to the processor’s RESET line. Flicker it quickly enough, and the processor doesn’t actually reset, but nonetheless its behavior changes. If you time the glitch right, you can get the processor to continue running through the bootloader’s instructions even if a hash check instruction failed. Of course, timing it right was hard, so it helps to temporarily slow down the processor.
From there, the article continues to explore the many and varied ways this hack played out against Microsoft’s copy protection across multiple models and revisions of the Xbox 360. The bit with the BGA ball connections is particularly inspired. [15432] also goes even deeper into a look at how the battle around the Xb0x 360’s DVD-ROM drive got heated.
We seldom talk about the Xbox 360 these days, but they used to grace these pages on the regular. Video after the break.

[Thanks to aliaali for the tip!]

Getting It Done: Last Week in D.I.Y. and Independent Musician NewsLast week, our D.I.Y. tips and independent musician news covered how artist get the most from Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music adding Set Lists via Bandsintown, and more…
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REWIND: New Music Industry’s Week in ReviewA busy week by any definition and the music industry was no exception, Apple Music added Set Lists, Live Nation under fire, with the slow revival of indie sleeze, a. Continue reading
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Black Pearl B200 completes IK Multimedia’s Pianoverse Black Pearl B200 captures a Bösendorfer 214VC Vienna Concert grand piano, promising to round off the Pianoverse collection with a unique, contemporary tone.