GoR 92: The Return of the Return of GoR

Gears of Resistance #92 for July 28, 2022 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/GOR/2022/GOR_0092_20220728.mp3 This week we cover: Arduino Cloud Thread Security versus Privacy | Ben Franklin Quote Context [Download] For more DIY/Maker, STEAM, citizen science, digital citizenship, open source, and security news follow along on Twitter, Facebook , or our YouTube Channel. Or listen to the audio-only version at Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher or…

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GoR Podcast 85: IoT Securitygasm

Gears of Resistance #85 for August 14, 2018 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/GOR/2018/GOR_0085_14AUG18.mp3 This week we cover: EECatalog Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 | CAN Shield | RS485 Shield Microchip ECC508A CryptoAuthentication Chip Microsoft Azure Sphere | 7 Properties of Secured Devices Embedded Vulnerability Assessment Tools Google Tensor Processing Unit Hardware Apple Joins Smart Home Mesh Networking Standards Group WannaCry…

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GoR 84: Return of the Geek

Gears of Resistance #84 for April 21, 2018 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/GOR/2018/GOR_0084_21APR18.mp3 This week we cover: IoT and Cybersecurity FTC Lets You Fix Your Stuff Without Voiding Your Warranty Ultrasonic Hacking Google AIY Let’s You Play With Neural Networks Nintendo Labo: Physical Meets Virtual Intel Shutting Down Group Behind AR Goggles Wearable Solar Cells 3D Product Fabrication All-In-One…

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SPP 83: Spectacle of Rockin’ Romans in Space (and BitCoin)

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #83 for July 29, 2017. http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/SPP/2017/STEAM_0083_29JUL17.mp3 This week we cover: Clothing That Can Charge Your Phone Human Radio Signals Could Be Helping Shield Us From Space Storms Explaining BitCoin Google Gets Into Geothermal Energy Business Google Glass Returns  |  SnapChat Spectacles Disney Unveils Plans for Star Wars Hotel Roman Concrete Secrets Unlocked Quindar:…

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SPP 82: Now With Artificially Flavored Intelligence

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #82 for June 18, 2017. http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/SPP/2017/STEAM_0082_18JUN17.mp3 This week we cover: Wastewater Treatment Tech Kills Pathogens and Generates Electricity Lowe’s Testing Exoskeletons for Employees Google Unveils a New AI-focuses Processor, offers Hardware as a Service Algorithms Design New Nutella Jars Mathematically Proof for Possibility of Time Travel Supreme Court Smackdown on Patent Trolls Supreme…

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SPP 78: Gravity in Meatspace

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #78 for March 6, 2016 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/SPP/2016/STEAM_0078_6MAR16.mp3 This week we cover: Gravitational Waves Discovered Ex-NSA Chief Agrees with Apple Teaching Math Using Dance and Theater Google Invents Needless-Needle MIT Brings IFTTT to Meatspace Mattel’s $300 Toy 3D Printer [Download] For more tech news and how-to’s visit the blog, follow along on Google+, and check out our YouTube Channel. Or listen…

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SPP 74: Citizen Science Rules, Common Core Drools!

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #74 for October 4, 2015 http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/SPP/2015/STEAM_0074_4OCT15.mp3 This week we cover: Goodbye Google, Hello Alphabet The Exercise Pill Salt Water Flows on Mars Breakthrough in Desalination Going Driverless in the Netherlands DARPA Gives Prosthetics Feelings Out with Standardized Testing, In With Adaptive Testing Citizen Science Resources | Scientific America | What is CS?…

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I Compute Therefore I Am

http://greenshoegarage.com/podcast/SPP/2015/STEAM_0069_5JUL15.mp3 This week we cover: Apple Music Launches The City That Runs on Twitter Google Tackles Urban Planning with Sidewalk Labs Astro Wireless Speaker/Lightbulb Mashup Amazon Drones Launch in One Year… Maybe STEM: It’s What We Need Placebos and Medical Ethics Ford Gets Serious About Driverless Tech and 3D Printing Minecraft Convention Breaks Records AI…

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A Rant on Google Brillo+Weave, Apple HomeKit, OpenHAB

Going to start something new. Instead of writing my blogs, I am going to try (when I am wearing pants) to do more videos. We shall see how long this lasts! But for now… I go on a rant about the potential of Google’s newly announced #Brillo and #Weave projects. How it racks and stacks against…

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More Phidget Phun

I have been playing with Phidgets more and more lately. Mainly because it is forcing me to go relearn good OOP programming skills, it’s also serving to push me to learn Python. As a hardware guy, it’s always a challenge to get motivated to learn yet another new programming language. But so far, so good….

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