When Elliot Williams and Al Williams compare their notes on the week in Hackaday, you know you’ll get at least one or two bad puns. How bad? Tune in and find out.This week, Tom Nardi visits several in-person events, and Elliot and Al talk about smart buttons, Itanium, ejecting things from a rocket, and the infinite pickle. Will Elliot build the coin flipper? Will Al use plasma at his next cookout? Hard to say.For the can’t miss articles, this week, Al swept the category with a post on splices and another on what human junk is still sitting on the moon.What do you think? Leave us a comment or record something and send it to our mailbag.Download a copy of the podcast with an MP3 from our continuous audio pipeline.Where to Follow Hackaday PodcastPlaces to follow Hackaday podcasts:iTunesSpotifyStitcherRSSYouTubeCheckout our Libsyn landing pageNews:VCF East And Maker Faire Make For A Busy WeekendGet Your Green Power On!MailbagGot something to share for the Mailbag? Drop us a line. Already sent something in? Maybe send it again as we were… ahem… experiencing technical difficulties.What’s that Sound?For a change, neither Elliot nor Al knew what the sound was in advance. Think you know that sound? Fill out the form for a chance to win!Interesting Hacks of the Week:DIY Smart Button Gets Surprisingly ComplicatedItanium: The Great X86 Replacement That Never WasPhotographing Rocket Chute Deployment At 10 KmEjector Seats: The Rocket Chairs That Save LivesDIY Weather Stations Report In From ChernobylThis Reactor Is On Fire! Literally…Hacking Fermentation For Infinite Pickles From Pass-thru BioreactorPickle Diodes, Asymmetric Jacobs Ladders, And Other AC SurprisesPickleUsing Capacitance For Extremely Sensitive Proximity SensingQuick Hacks:Elliot’s Picks:Analog Circuitry Lets You Blow This LED OutESP32 Hosts A Public WebsiteAutonomous Coin Flipper Flips Expensive CoinAl’s Picks:Modded Server PSU Provides Plenty Of CurrentDIY Nuclear Battery With PV Cells And TritiumElectric Wind-Up Plane Uses Supercapacitors For Free Flight FunCooking With Plasma (Not Fire)Can’t-Miss Articles:The Splice Must FlowThe Aluminum Wiring FiascoWhat Have We Dumped On The Moon?Salvage 1 – Wikipedia