Welcome to the 6th and final episode of Series 1 of the Wrenches Gadgets & Hacks Podcast.

In this episode of the “Technology, Innovation, and Curiosity On and Off the Clock” series, Carl and guest host John engage in a stimulating discussion with Zach Kron. They learn about all the great things he as done in his career, and how he uses those technologies and skills off the clock. They also learn that making gifts for people with those same skills, while fun is also something that’s done because we care, and we want these gifts to be meaningful.

As we chatted with Zach we got into the weeds with so many great technologies, past and present.

• Project Vasari
• Dynamo
• Forma
• Tinkercad
• All this and more just below in the Show Notes

You can listen to the podcast, HERE, the Spotify player at the start of this post, or on your favorite podcast app. If you prefer visual content, be sure to check out the video on YouTube.

Show Notes:

• Autodesk – Where Zach does his 9 – 5 work
• Zach’s Links – All the things Zach does can be found here
• Buildz – Zach’s Plotter Art

• Buildz Blog – Zach’s old blog (still got good stuff)
• Project Vasari – A old and much loved Autodesk project that lead to many great things like FormIt and Dynamo

• Forma – What became of Spacemaker that Autodesk bought, and now has incorporated parts of FormIt
• Future of FormIt – What’s to become of FormIt not its shifted into maintenance mode
• Dynamo – The visual coding tool we all know and love
• Tinkercad – Cool free tool from Autodesk (another purchase) that is great for3D printing and lots more “Maker” use cases for the off the clock techie

• Who Moved my Cheese – Great book that a bestseller and  motivational business fable
• Genuary 2024 – GENUARY is an artificially generated month of time where we build code that makes beautiful things.
• Scratch – Visual programming language to help kids (young and old) learn to code.
• Interview with Zach on the Getting Simple Podcast
• Interview with Zach on BAD

• The Doodle Manifesto – Sometimes doodling is just doodling
• Pumpkin Variatals – Dynamo Pumpkins for Halloween
• Happy Halloween VI – More Pumpkins!
•  State of Play: Parametric Tools and Computational Toys with Autodesk Vasari – The handout for the BILT (RTC at the time) class Zach spoke of, if you download it the last page is a DYI paper finger puppet

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Also a BIG Thanks to Alex Grohl for our amazing intro and outro music “Indie Hey Song (Lost Fragments)” You can find more great royalty-free music from Alex on Pixabay

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