About this episode
Photo by benjamin lehman on Unsplash
Published 21 July 2025
e521 with Andy, Michael and Michael – stories about expressive robots (Shoggoth Mini, Apple ELEGNT, SpiRob & facehugger), newly reengineered Commodore & Sinclair computer reboots, Seagate’s 30TB drives and a whole lot more.
Andy, Michael and Michael get things rolling with a story about what went into creating the hero image for last week’s show notes. The team then turns to the Shoggoth Mini robot, and how it uses it’s antenna so expressively. Inspired by Apple’s ELEGNT robot lamp, and SpiRobs’s tentacle system, Matthieu Le Cauchois started building the Shoggoth Mini. Check out the links below for the videos and images to see how this robot interacts. After touching on a robotic instance of a facehugger from the Aliens movies, the co hosts turn back to the future.
If you are nostalgic for a Commodore 64 computer, it is your lucky day. Newly reengineered C-64s are available in several different mode