ThinkGeek, Inc.

Unfortunately, the part of the build guide that explains how the impulses from the conveyor belts feed into the computer is marked as to do, and the source code is incomplete.

It's worth mentioning that the fact that they built one and set the repo free is far more than we ever got from ThinkGeek on a given April Fools' Day, which was usually more on the side of frustration that the product was fake.

Maybe they'll bring the rest of the details, maybe not, but they did provide STLs, which makes the question more intriguing.

In the post, Tyler posited a few ideas for making it work in reality, a BLE microcontroller in each belt, RFID tags for each key with readers in the base, and SMD LEDs on the flex PCBs that flash the ASCII of each key press as they pass a sensor.

My only worry about Toys R Us coming back is they might try and chase the same model that GameStop is trying to chase, where instead of finding a lane and being the best at that lane, like back in the day, toys and somewhat games were were a part of their culture but toys was really what you went in there for everything in there was a toy to play with and they started venturing into video games a little bit near the you know the late 90s and things like that maybe a little earlier but really it was hey we are a toy provider and With GameStop, they used to be a game provider.

And instead of pivoting to stay within their lane, they decided to buy ThinkGeek and then start selling more game merchandise.

And then now they're getting into Pokemon cards.

And they're really trying just at the same type of cash grab that we're seeing everything else.

That's really cool

... one of the, one of the greatest Star Wars things that was ever sold was ThinkGeek's Tauntaun sleeping bag.

Yeah.

[laughs]

Yeah.

That was a classic.

And I, I, I, I had purchased it way, a- a- obviously ThinkGeek is long gone by now and the, the sleeping bag is nowhere to be found, but it has, like, in- intestines as a l- uh, on the liner.

And, um, yeah, you unzip the sleeping bag and c- crawl in, and it's, like, full adult size.

It would've been cool 10 years ago when I was-

ThinkGeek?

Well, I thought...

No, I wasn't.

When you bought it on ThinkGeek.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[laughs] Yeah, woot.

I had the, the bag of holding.

I am Eliseo White, alongside Christopher White.

Do you remember that ThinkGeek T-shirt, for anybody who doesn't, just don't, that said, "I will replace you with a small shell script"? Yeah, we're gonna talk about that a lot today.

And we have Professor Adam Smith to talk about it with us.

Hi, Adam.

You just

have to transfer them with a USB cord with something like from ThinkGeek from, you know, cassette to MP3 file.

Anyway.

Sounds like a good intern job.

My chapter on J.D. Vance is called The Unicorn.

And in venture capital terms, a unicorn is a billion dollar company.

You make an investment in something and it becomes worth a billion dollars eventually.

At every step of J.D. Vance's adult career, it's been Peter Thiel guiding the way, promoting him and funding him.

equations and whatnot.

Again, that gets us further than we thought it could, but it's still got limits to explain those limits.

Uh, I was on a podcast with a guy who was a big AI believer who like shortly thereafter took a job at a big, uh, AI company, kind of a revolving door.

And he said the most AI pilled bro-y thing imaginable.

What was his name? That place was called...

Didn't they get consumed by ThinkGeek or something? Somebody bought them out.

Yeah.

And I've got...