Nerf Team Fortress 2 turret
The Hacksmith replicated a level 2 Sentry Turret from Team Fortress 2. It’s no slouch – it can shoot over 200 rounds per minute.
Drone to the French Alps
Romano FPV takes his drone on an epic flight from Chamonix (1030m) to Aiguille du midi (3842m) in the French Alps.
Nailing the Yukon Cornelius impression
Illoominated II
This projection mapping installation by Todd Moyer Designs was inspired by the machinery of a fabric loom. Projections create the illusion of rolling spools of yarn and woven textiles, while colorful laser beams emulate thread. Illoominated II was on display at the Portland Winter Light Festival 2025.
Robotic tentacles
Engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China, this biomimetic soft robot moves like an octopus tentacle. SpiRobs can bend, twist, and grasp a variety of objects. The mechanical arm is capable of lifting up to 260 times its weight while having a gentle enough grip to handle fragile objects.
Wow scratching machine
Headachesound is a self-contained gadget for making turntable scratch effects. You can load it with your samples and beats, then jog its high-sensitivity mini turntable to manipulate sounds. Music producer Mr Viktor got his hands on a prototype and put it through its paces.
Oregon dead last in reading
Why is Mississippi doing so well?
In 2013, the state passed a reform to require teachers to understand the science of reading (basically, phonics), deploy literacy coaches to schools, identify students struggling to read early and hold back students in third grade who weren’t ready to advance.
Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana have now done much the same, and have also made gains.
The original source of all this was a 2002 reading law in Florida that boosted student achievement in the Sunshine State.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/opinion/mississippi-is-no-miracle-its-the-future-of-education/
Meanwhile, Oregon, with some of the highest per-student spending, run for over a decade by a one of the most progressive Democratically controlled state legislatures in both the house and senate, continues to double-down on proven failed teaching methods and suspended all education standards to graduate in order to promote racial equality.
While Oregon is passing increasing numbers of functionally illiterate children on to adulthood, kids in Mississippi can read, and other countries children are doing this:
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Uniq Volumetric puzzles
Uniq volumetric puzzles are made from soft PVC and molded into sculptural pieces. The first set of puzzles feature curvy, organic shapes and 30 to 70 pieces each
It’s fun on TV until you’re stuck living with it each day
Interesting little post from a local who’s calling things as they are and have been. Is Portland the claimed Trump ‘war zone’. No. Have we been breeding a violent protesters for years who actually commit a fair amount of violence? Absolutely yes.
So what’s “too far” for Rose City Antifa?
- Blocking the driveway and traffic? Did that.
- Physically interfering with lawful arrests? Did that.
- Torturing the neighborhood with endless megaphone and fireworks noise? Did that.
- Nearby preschool decides to move due to constant protests/violence/teargas
- Portland judge sides with city to not enforce constant protestor noise violations near the ICE building (they were temporarily cleared after the lawsuit)
- Low income residents also lose their appeal to have constantly din of noise violations from protesters stopped
- Doxxing people so their homes and families can be targeted? Did that.
- Attempting to enter the facility? Did that.
- Refusing to obey a judge’s orders to stay away? Did that.
- Smashing windows? Did that.
- Throwing knives at feds? Did that.
- Hurling rocks at feds’ faces? Did that.
- Arson targeting police vehicles, politicians’ homes, train trestles and the ICE facility? Did that. And plead guilty to federal arson charges.
- Attempting to blind officers and aircraft using laser pointers. And encourage others to do the same – including 4 people in the country illegally. To the point life-flight helicopters needed to divert critically injured people miles away.
Antifa are clearly violent and they’ve broadcast their intent quite loudly since the Covid protests that had similar acts of violence and arson.
So where’s the line? Do we keep pretending that this wouldn’t escalate to a scenario like the sniper in Dallas? The frog costumes are cute, but even the guy who started that trend loves to post violent threats online.
AI to AI communication
It’s no secret AI agents are starting to take over customer service and other tasks. So, instead of communicating via expensive text-to-speech conversion, why not use their own language.
Gibberlink allows AIs to skip unnecessary speech synthesis and recognition and communicate using beeps and bleeps like R2D2.