TRANSCRIPT · Halloween Spirit from the Make: Editorial Slack Archives

## Halloween Spirit from the Make: Editorial Slack Archives (Make:)
https://makezine.com/article/craft/halloween-spirit-from-the-make-editorial-slack-archives/
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: the Make: editors' Slack is full of skeletons, and you can build them yourself.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news, just landed thirteen minutes ago: the Make: editors' Slack archive is open, and it is positively full of skeletons.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Ten Halloween builds that keep resurfacing in the channel: animatronics, yard-scale puppets, costumes, creepy decor. Ada is at the makerspace.
ADA: Huge find! Fashion-tech designer Anouk Wipprecht made glowing devil horns, 3D-printed in translucent PETG on a Prusa CORE One+, so the LEDs shine through.
ADA: An Arduino Nano powers the lights, and there's room to grow. Add a sensor and the horns can react to light, sound, movement and more.
ADA: Then the Eldritch Horror. A storm destroyed puppet designer Brandon Hardy's 2021 display, so he gave himself three days and built a 30-foot skeleton marionette.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A thirty-foot skeleton in three days. The station's 1987 weather map took longer, and it had only one cloud.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Most of the ten come with build videos or write-ups, so you can borrow an idea or two for next year.

## Toyota will turn its bZ electric SUV into Waymo robotaxis from 2027 (The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/toyota-bz-waymo-robotaxi-japan-2027
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Toyota will build driverless bZ SUVs for Waymo, Japan first, then the UK.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Toyota will build driverless bZ electric SUVs for Waymo. A grand partnership, and tonight it gets THE BIG PICTURE.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: We first told you this morning about Waymo and Toyota. The fuller report adds the doors, the tailgate and what neither company will say.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Vera, who does the driving here? The AI? Is it still one guy?
DR. VERA VECTOR: The Next Web reports the cars are built on the regular bZ line, called bZ4X in Japan, at Toyota's Takaoka plant in Aichi Prefecture. Toyota fits Waymo's hardware there.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And that includes the doors?
KAI: Huge. Japan first, then the UK, so right-hand drive markets. Waymo already tests in Tokyo with safety drivers. I just hope somebody chose decent USB-C ports for the back seat.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Vera, how many cars is Toyota going to build?
DR. VERA VECTOR: Neither company said. Waymo co-chief executive Dmitri Dolgov said they have no other countries, timelines or specifics to share.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: So what stands between us and a robotaxi in London?
DR. VERA VECTOR: According to the article, Waymo plans to launch in London once it gets permits. It adds that rivals are also eyeing Japan. The rest is an open question.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Testing from 2027. I can't program the VCR timer for next Tuesday, but I admire their confidence.

## THE SWINGOMETER (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The Swingometer counts GitHub's trending languages: TypeScript leads with six slots.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. Fifteen slots on GitHub's trending page, and every one has been counted. This is THE SWINGOMETER.
DR. VERA VECTOR: TypeScript holds six slots, forty percent of the page, up one against yesterday.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Shell holds three slots, twenty percent, up one. Python and Rust hold two slots each, thirteen percent, each up one.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Zig holds one slot, seven percent, new on the page. OTHER holds one slot, seven percent, down one.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Grant, for the record, this is a count of today's rows. It's not a poll, and nobody is being elected.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Zig, new on the page, is the upset of the count. Stunning scenes. I'm calling it a landslide.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: It's one slot, Grant. We'll count again tomorrow. That's the Swingometer.

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## Weather
STORMY BYTES: Stormy Bytes with the Hype Forecast: a wide front of robotaxi announcements is moving in from the east.
STORMY BYTES: Expect scattered partnerships, with a high chance of 'testing next year' and no cars counted.
STORMY BYTES: Permits are a fog bank over London. Visibility improves once somebody signs something.

## Real or PXL?
GRANT BRICKMAN: Correct! The real one. Nobody could invent that, though PXL did try with the other.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Fooled! PXL made that one up, and honestly, I'd have fallen for it too.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time's up! A pity. The truth waits for no anchor.

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