join us this Friday for a Hack chat on antiquated technologies.
Every Friday, we round up somebody from the hardware scene as well as sit them down in front of a keyboard to go over what they’re working on. This week, we’re speaking with [Fran Blanche] to go over ancient technologies, odd electronics, as well as whatever that goes into building a hardware business from the ground up.
Who’s [Fran Blanche], you may ask? She’s a self-taught electronic engineer, artist, musician, photographer, mechanical engineer, as well as YouTube vlogger. She’s the creator of Frantone Electronics, one of the extremely very first makers of shop guitar effects. Her Peachfuzz is one of the very, extremely few original distortion/fuzz circuits out there. She’s provided talks at brown University on the boutique effects industry, dealt with the Franklin Institute on the Maillardet Automaton, wandered around the largest musical instrument, taken apart flight hardware from the Saturn V just to see exactly how it works, as well as she’s been inside the warehouse for the Smithsonian’s Air as well as area museum.
With a resume of work this cool, what’s [Fran] working on now? She’s trying to recreate the DSKY from the Apollo support Computer. The DSKY is the individual interface for the Apollo support Computer, a terrific block of aluminum studded with lovely buttons as well as electroluminescent displays. For the last few years, her attempts to reproduce a contemporary DSKY — including the custom-made segmented EL screen — has been on the back burner, however now [Fran] is attempting to raise the money for a reproduction on GoFundMe. I motivate you all to at least look at that GoFundMe campaign.
Here’s exactly how To Take Part:
Our Hack Chats are online neighborhood events on the Hackaday.io Hack chat group messaging.
Log into Hackaday.io, see that page, as well as look for the ‘Join this Project’ Button. when you’re part of the project, the button will modification to ‘Team Messaging’, which takes you directly to the Hack Chat.
You don’t have to wait up until Friday; join whenever you want as well as you can see what the neighborhood is speaking about.