e546 — Smart Play Doom Brain Brick

About this episode

The episode discusses LEGO's Smart Play brick and various related topics including biocomputing and digital products.

Published 9 March 2026 e543 with Andy, Michael and Michael – Stories and discussion on LEGO’s new Smart Play brick, this is a human brain (cells) on Doom, orc audio for vibe coding, Liquid Death’s Spotify urn for playlist immortality and a whole lot more. Michael, Michael and Andy get things rolling with Michael M’s delivery of the newest innovation from LEGO, the Smart Play brick!   While Michael’s only had a little bit of time to play with the new brick, it is already sparking some interesting ideas.  Check out the show notes below for what others are doing with it, now that the Smart Play brick is out and in the wild!  And of course the audio of the podcast for some of the sounds from the brick! An article about a biocomputing success to play Doom with human brain cells, reminds the cohosts of other biocomputing examples from e504.  The Ars Technica article about identifying anonymous users through LLMs likewise reminds the team of other examples for triangulating identity.  After a story about using the audio from Warcraft III in vibe coding experiences “work, work”, the team takes a look at “Humanity’s Last Exam”, which likely has already been…

People in this episode

Hosts: Michael Rowe, Michael Martine, Andy Piper

Topics covered

• LEGO Smart Play brick
• biocomputing
• vibe coding
• metaverse applications
• digital products
• audio experiences

Keywords

• LEGO
• Smart Play brick
• Doom
• biocomputing
• vibe coding
• metaverse
• Liquid Death
• Spotify
• Epic
• Google

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Liquid Death, Spotify, Ars Technica, Epic, Google

Products: Smart Play brick

Books & works: Doom

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