Helical Brew

#37 - Unfiltered Brew: Lab Chaos, Coolant Caps & Automation Day Throwbacks


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πŸŽ™ Hosts: Sura Hadi | Mike Ouren | Elizabeth Rodziewicz

🎧 Series: Unfiltered Brew – Helical Brew Intermission

β˜•οΈ Lab chaos, cool cars, and even cooler stories.

This unscripted intermission episode gives the Helical Brew crew a chance to go off-the-rails (and off-the-record) about robot mishaps, automation bloopers, and the biotech grind. From coolant caps that won’t budge to janitors shadowboxing $250K robots - this is one for the automation folklore books.

πŸ’₯ What you'll hear:

  • The difference between open vs. closed APIs (and when your chair disappears mid-rant)
  • Lab automation horror stories: stacked trash, overheating samples, and lost experiments
  • Throwbacks to Velocity11, Dynamic Devices, and the lost glory of the Flipper
  • Why San Diego feels like a post-biotech apocalypse
  • DIY car repair, dishwasher regrets, and... tea shooters?


🎁 Bonus: An ode to International Lab Automation Day - and some serious nostalgia.

πŸ‘‡ Hit play, share a laugh, and remember: every day is Lab Automation Day.

πŸ”” Subscribe for more automation tales β†’ Β Β Β /Β @helicalbrewΒ Β 

πŸ“Œ CHAPTERS

00:00 – Car trouble & tiny tea cups

01:50 – Coolant cap vs. acrylic nails

02:41 – Dishwasher destroys favorite mug

03:53 – Memories & automation throwbacks

06:22 – Open APIs, Dynamic Devices, XML wins

08:13 – Lab Automation Day = every day

10:02 – TikTok spam & merch requests

10:32 – Velocity11 nostalgia & Flipper comeback

12:37 – Robot mishaps & lab disasters

15:32 – AC off = ruined experiments

18:30 – SLAS/LRIG recap & regional shifts

23:50 – Future segments & wrap-up

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Helical BrewBy Sura Hadi | Mike Ouren | Elizabeth Rodziewicz