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| Episode: 304 Date: 06-24-09 Format: ogg |
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#304 - 06/24/2009 - total running time 115:20
1:45 - Jeri Ellsworth from the "Fatman and Circuit Girl" videocast, Jeri built an IC fabrication at home, getting into hardware hacking
4:50 - Jeri got into computers when her family got a Commodore 64, Jeri did starve in the early days, Jeri did a C64 in a joystick a few years back
10:30 - Jeri is a high school dropout and raced cars for a while, Jeri encountered sexism in the racing arena, proving your worth to your peers
19:10 - programming in Assembler, getting started with a C64, taking classes to learn hardware hacking, resources for learning hardware hacking, Arduino kits
28:40 - BUGLabs hardware modules, lots of web resources are available, embedded multimedia devices are pretty powerful, Allan uses Cadence
35:00 - Allan "pushes polygons" for a living, "What doesn't kill you will only make you stronger", nice destructive juvenile stories, Jeri is friendly with Steve Wozniak
49:40 - bomb making fun, you used to be able to buy black powder off the shelf at Kmart, Nintendo clones are rampant in China
64:00 - the Grand Theft Auto Hot Coffee secret sex scene, Bil Herd was a mentor to Jeri, getting permission to use Commodore properties, Amiga on a stick
73:00 - BBS memories, Jeri wrote her own BBS and had it up for about a week, Jeri runs all windows machines, Jeri has 45 pinball machines
88:00 - Steve Jobs got a new liver, breaking it in by going on a drinking binge, Jack Tramiel era Atari machines, remember the TRS-80?
93:00 - the internet was invented on the NeXT Cube, the Computer Museum in Silicon valley is worth a visit, mainframes are still used extensively today
98:00 - Jeri's stand on patents, is Jeri familiar with Neuros Technology?, how the toy companies have their products built
108:00 - wrapup (Dann needs a new workstation, outgoing song by Dual Core)
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