Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod. - 204: Science Cookies??

204: Science Cookies??

10/15/23 • 68 min

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We've got a pleasantly floral potpourri this week, mainly focused on Will's trip report from this weekend's Bay Area Maker Faire, the first time the DIY science and tech show has been held since 2019. If you want to hear about model-size mag-lev trains, personal undersea robots, the cottage industry of R2-D2 replica builders, and more, this is your podcast. If you also want to hear about Brad's contemplation of a PC water cooling conversion and Will's recent questionable RGB projects, that's in here too!

A few links for this week's show:

Maker Faire: https://makerfaire.com/

Build your own R2-D2: https://makezine.com/projects/building-your-first-r2/

OpenROV: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-trident-an-underwater-drone-for-everyone

OpenRGB: https://openrgb.org/

Project Aurora: https://www.project-aurora.com/

Artemis RGB: https://artemis-rgb.com/

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A few links for this week's show:

Maker Faire: https://makerfaire.com/

Build your own R2-D2: https://makezine.com/projects/building-your-first-r2/

OpenROV: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-trident-an-underwater-drone-for-everyone

OpenRGB: https://openrgb.org/

Project Aurora: https://www.project-aurora.com/

Artemis RGB: https://artemis-rgb.com/

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

Previous Episode

203: Don't Mess With Big Encyclopedia

Following on from our consideration of Google's many terminated products in episode 74, we turn our attention to another graveyard this week, one with a big "Microsoft" on the sign. The company's decades-long policy of trying to supplant market leaders with Microsoft-made equivalents has left us with plenty to talk about, from phones to joysticks, questionable Windows add-ons, an actually superlative streaming service, some very brown portable media players, and plenty more.

Big thanks to Killed by Microsoft for the reference material: https://killedbymicrosoft.info/

Don't miss the FOSS Pod ep we mentioned about 3D Movie Maker: https://fosspod.content.town/episodes/3d-movie-maker-with-foone-turing

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Next Episode

205: More Than a Drip, Less Than a Gush

This week we're doing some follow-ups on recent episodes to fill in a few blanks. Spurred on by the PS5's Spider-Man 2, we wanted to talk about the recent advent of gaming at 40Hz, and that led us to finally talk in some more depth about Brad's new television set. Will has also been testing a coffee brewer FROM SPAAAACE!!!! or at least co-designed by an astrophysicist, and has some tips on zero-bypass brewing, wetting your paper filters (eww), and more.

Some links from this episode:

Hisense U8K: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/hisense/u8-u8k

Nextlevel Pulsar: https://nextlevelbrewer.com/pulsar-brewer/

Coffee ad Astra: https://coffeeadastra.com/

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod