Hackaday Podcast Episode 390: DOOM, Cranium Stuff, and Odd OpenSCAD Opportunities

What happened

This week, Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met a few minutes later than usual, and somehow defeated a buzz together with the power of will before settling into the news, rifling through the Mailbag, and otherwise creating the attached podcast. Amazon, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen to not only remove Alexa’s aux port on future models, but also disable the input on extant ones.

Maybe just because it seems like taking a choice away for the sake of exerting power over the people. In Hackaday news, the Retrocomputing Contest is currently on fire, and runs through 10AM PDT on Tuesday, October 27th.

That means you have about 2.5 weeks left. Supercon Ten ticket sales are similarly aflame , and per Elliot, it’s about time to release the next round of speakers.