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  • X-Cube Prism Becomes Dichoric Disco Ball

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    X-Cube Prism Becomes Dichoric Disco BallYou’ve likely seen an X-cube, a dichoric prism used to split light into its constituent colours–you know, those fun little cubes you get when tearing apart a broken projector. Have you considered that the X-cube need not be a cube for its entire existence? [Matt] at “Matt’s Corner of Gem Cutting” on YouTube absolutely did, which is why he ground one into a 216-facet disco ball. That’s the hack, really. He took something many of us have played with at our desks thinking “I should do something cool with this” and… did something cool with it that most of us lack the tools and especially skills to even consider. It’s not especially practical, but it is especially pretty. Art, in other words.The shape he’s using is known specifically to gemologists as “Santa’s Little Helper II” though we’d probably describe it as a kind of isosphere. Faceting the cube is just a matter of grinding down the facets to create the isosphere, then polishing them to brilliance with increasingly finer grit. This is done one hemisphere at a time, so the other hemisphere can be safely held in place with the now-classic cyanoacrylate and baking soda composite. Yes, jewelers use that trick, too.We were slightly worried when [Matt] dumped his finished disco ball in acetone to clean off the cyanoacrylate– we haven’t the foggiest idea what optical-quality glue is used to hold the four prisms of an X-cube together and were a little worried acetone might soften the joints. That turned out not to be an issue, and [Matt] now has the most eye-catching sun-catcher we think we’ve ever seen.We actually have seen suncatchers before, though admittedly it’s not a very popular tag around here. The closest build to this one was a so-called “hypercrystal” that combined an infinitiy mirror with a crystaline shape and dicloric tape for an effect as trippy as it sounds.We also featured a deep-dive a while back if you want to know how these colourful, hard-to-pronounce coatings work.youtube.com/embed/5I7LdqpNolY?…hackaday.com/2026/01/28/x-cube…
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    Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura suggests his state join Canada. https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/01/28/fomer-governor-jesse-ventura-wants-minnesota-to-secede-join-canada/
  • Alone season 8 watch thread.

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    In a pagan folk band AND a pagan metal band? I have doubts about Biko.
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    Fonts – Pepper&CarrotFonts - Pepper&CarrotOfficial homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.https://monodes.com/predaelli/2026/01/28/fonts-peppercarrot/#Fonts #PepperCarrot