EP12 - Talking Shop: Communities, Prototypes, Hacking, Ham Radio, Telecoms and Robots!

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Joey Loman, Shopmaster at SynergyMill. During this episode, Barry and Joey talk about the building things, fabricating prototypes, 3D printing, robotics, Ham radio, dialing into Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), making TV studios, running telecom companies, hacking stories (allegedly) and community building.

“I have one expectation of people who work with me. Show up and don’t do worse than last time. Incremental improvement.” - Joey Loman

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• SynergyMill - Fab Lab, Makerspace, Community Workshop (0:47)

• The World of 3D Printing (8:04)

• TV Studio and Telcom War Stories (15:20)

• Dialing into BBSs (23:15)

• h@Ck3r stories…allegedly (27:52)

• Getting into Ham Radio (33:27)

• Robotics too…why not? (42:59)

• Community: Beer & Napkins, Hack Greenville Labs and SynergyMill (45:13)

Links

• Joey Loman on LinkedIn

• SynergyMill

• SynergyMill on Facebook

• HackGreenville Labs

• Beer & Napkins Meetup

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

Developed with assistance from Heard Media.