Coffee Break September 19th 2023

Looking for a good read or interesting video to suppliment your work break? We got you covered! Check out what’s been keeping us entertained on the internet this week:

Ian Davis is back with another update about his awesome mechanical hand. He's putting the latest tech to work, from laser engraving to 3D scanning. It's amazing to see the progress he's made.

As undeniable proof things have gotten out of hand in the automotive world, this article recounts the story of a busted taillight that ended up costing the owner $5600.

https://hackaday.com/2023/09/09/when-tail-lights-lose-touch-with-reality/

Ian Davis is back with another update about his awesome mechanical hand. He's putting the latest tech to work, from laser engraving to 3D scanning. It's amazing to see the progress he's made.

University professor Mata Haggis shares his practical tips for creating compelling drama in your indie game and how those tips can bring new life to your overall game design.

The uConsole is an impressive new modular handheld computer. The build quality looks superb, from this unboxing and demo video from ETA PRIME.

A recent disturbing development from the Unity game engine. It seems like they want to charge developers for every installation of their game (not purchase - installation). A lot of people are pretty upset about this, and for good reason. Here at OverScore, this is just making us glad we started learning the free and open-source Godot engine.

We've lost a legend recently. More than a meme, Steve Harwell of the band Smash Mouth was a big guy with a bigger personality.

This video from mitxela highlights the incredible engineering that made the SLR camera possible.

Another masterpiece from Posy, examining e-paper screens in microscopic detail.

Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working on computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication, previously at MIT, and now at OXMAN

This 3D printable modular storage system from startknop lets you pretend your desk is a warehouse floor. You especially gotta love the pallet of batteries, and pencil holder drums.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6185614

Slant 3D's Evil Plan to revolutionize the market for affordable, high-quality 3D printing filament sounds really doable, actually. They've definitely thought this through, and it's great to see them apply tried-and-true manufacturing processes to this emergent industry.

Cole Hastings shares some great, deeply-personal, practical life advice in this video. It's worth a watch for anyone struggling with finding self-confidence, to sustaining motivation, to dealing with interpersonal conflict in emotionally-mature ways.

We need more super dramatic programming tutorials!

RTGame plays the latest "game" from neal.fun, a battle against a hilariously-infuriating password validator.

Why'd you just run that stop sign? DJ Khaled: "Don't let nothing stop you!"

...One giant leap for memekind. Hope Fry has fun in the future, now that he's finally awake.