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<p>Published 17 November 2025</p>
<p>e533 with Andy, Michael and Michael &#8211; rings to chart the heavens and control your home, repurposing smart TVs, retro La Machine and Vectrex hardware made newly available, new Valve Steam hardware and a whole lot more.</p>
<p>Andy, Michael and Michael start things off with a 400 year old ring that unfolds into an astronomy tool.&nbsp; Check out this amazing technology in the show notes below.&nbsp; If you want to have such a ring of your own, the design team from <a href="https://www.blackadept.com/collections/all/rings">Black Adept</a> have them available for sale!&nbsp; Sticking with the theme, the next powerful ring follows the Tron Master Control Disk concept.&nbsp; This interesting design expression reminded Michael M of the Mini circular dashboard display.</p>
<p>Next up is a great way to repurpose an old TV.&nbsp; The team explores an article with instructions for making a smart mirror using two way glass and a Raspberry Pi.&nbsp; You may want to ensure that the TV has the automatic content recognition features turned off.&nbsp; Andy remarks on the continuing evolution over the years of the Magic Mirror software that enables this to work.&nbsp; After talking about the bright idea of using the circuity of a smart lightbulb to serve as a Minecraft server, the cohosts look La Machine.</p>
<p>Then the team takes a look at the recent announcements from Valve.&nbsp; New Steam hardware has captured their imagination.&nbsp; The Steam Machine, Steam Frame and a new Steam controller provides great excitement for the platform.&nbsp; Wrapping up the episode, Michael R takes a look at the World of Warcraft new in game currency used for building houses.&nbsp; The blog post announcing this from Blizzard has 2,817 replies when these show notes were written! &nbsp;</p>
<p>What legacy hardware would you most like to have again?&nbsp; Have your bots 🤖 drop our bots 🤖 a line at @gamesatwork_biz@mastodon.social (our home for now) and let us know!&nbsp;</p>
<p>These show notes were lovingly hand crafted by a real human, and not by a bot.&nbsp; All rights reserved.&nbsp; That’s our story and we’re sticking to it.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Selected Links</strong></h2>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Maker</strong></h2>
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<p>A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens<a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-400-year-old-ring-that-unfolds-to-track-movements-of-the-heavens.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2025/11/a-400-</span><span class="invisible">year-old-ring-that-unfolds-to-track-movements-of-the-heavens.html</span></a></p>
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            &mdash; Ronan (@ronanmcd@mastodon.green)
            <a class="ftf-fediverse-post-embed-link" href="https://mastodon.green/@ronanmcd/115502701611360359">2025-11-06T12:16:00.036Z</a>
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<p>Open Culture article: <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/a-400-year-old-ring-that-unfolds-to-track-movements-of-the-heavens.html">A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens</a></p>
<p><iframe allow="autoplay *; encrypted-media *;" frameborder="0" height="150" style="width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" src="https://embed.music.apple.com/us/album/single-ladies-put-a-ring-on-it/296016891?i=296016899"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://hackster.io">hackster.io</a> article: <a href="https://www.hackster.io/news/welcome-to-the-grid-84c830155172">Welcome to the Grid</a></p>
<p>IMDb post: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/list/ls058948070/">Tron movies and tv shows</a></p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded"><img decoding="async" width="683" height="1024" src="https://gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nicole-logan-R1gvm6OagZU-unsplash-683x1024.jpg" alt="Mini car circular dashboard display" class="wp-image-4989" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nicole-logan-R1gvm6OagZU-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&ssl=1 683w, https://i0.wp.com/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nicole-logan-R1gvm6OagZU-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1 200w, https://i0.wp.com/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nicole-logan-R1gvm6OagZU-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nicole-logan-R1gvm6OagZU-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nicole-logan-R1gvm6OagZU-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&ssl=1 1365w, https://i0.wp.com/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nicole-logan-R1gvm6OagZU-unsplash-scaled.jpg?resize=100%2C150&ssl=1 100w, https://i0.wp.com/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nicole-logan-R1gvm6OagZU-unsplash-scaled.jpg?w=1707&ssl=1 1707w, https://i0.wp.com/gamesatwork.biz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/nicole-logan-R1gvm6OagZU-unsplash-scaled.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@nicoletarasuk?utm_source=unsplash&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_content=creditCopyText">Nicole Logan</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/the-dashboard-of-a-car-with-a-gps-device-R1gvm6OagZU?utm_source=unsplash&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Boy Genius Report article: <a href="https://www.bgr.com/2014813/how-to-turn-old-tv-into-smart-mirror-raspberry-pi-guide/">You Can Use Your Old TV As A Smart Mirror &#8211; Here&#8217;s How</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com">Raspberry Pi</a></p>
<p><a href="https://docs.magicmirror.builders/getting-started/installation.html">Magic Mirror^2 documentation</a></p>
<p>Games at Work <a href="https://gamesatwork.biz/2024/09/02/e479-listen-up-outlaws/">e479: Listen Up Outlaws!</a> for smart tv automatic content recognition</p>
<p>Tom’s Hardware article: <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/microcontrollers/hardware-hacker-installs-minecraft-server-on-a-cheap-smart-lightbulb-single-192-mhz-risc-v-core-with-276kb-of-ram-enough-to-run-tiny-90k-byte-world">Hardware hacker installs Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb — single 192 MHz RISC-V core with 276KB of RAM, enough to run tiny 90K byte world</a></p>
<p><a href="https://la-machine.fr/us">La Machine</a></p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Gaming Hardware (and Software)</strong></h2>
<p>Games Industry article: <a href="https://www.gamesindustry.biz/valve-announces-3-new-steam-hardware-devices-steam-machine-vr-headset-steam-frame-and-a-new-steam-controller">Valve announces 3 new Steam hardware devices: Steam Machine, VR headset Steam Frame, and a new Steam controller</a></p>
<p>PC Gamer article: <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/vr-hardware/steam-frame-specs-availability/">Valve announces the Steam Frame: &#8216;a new way to play your entire Steam library’</a></p>
<p>Eurogamer article: <a href="https://www.eurogamer.net/tech-how-did-valve-design-the-steam-machine-it-started-with-the-fan-of-course">How did Valve design its new Steam Machine? It started with the fan, of course</a></p>
<p>Kickstarter: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1852390947/vectrex-mini">Vectrex Mini</a></p>
<p>The Verge article: <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/816714/world-of-warcraft-player-housing-hearthsteel-currency">World of Warcraft is getting a new kind of fake money</a></p>
<p>Blizzard blog post: <a href="https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24242736/developer-insight-hearthsteel-virtual-currency-and-housing-in-midnight">Developer Insight: Hearthsteel Virtual Currency and Housing in Midnight</a></p>
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