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Happy Lady Ada Day! I couldn't let his happy occasion slip by
without giving a shout-out to my favorite female uber-geek, Jeri
Ellsworth. I am just so thrilled that a number of the
maker-engineers that I look up to and admire are women. It's
encouraging to think of girls growing up with the likes of Jeri,
Limor Fried, Amanda Wozniak, Becky Stern, Diana Eng, Leah Buechley,
Natalie Jeremijenko, etc. as role models. Here, Jeri makes flaming
candy canes out of sugar, molasses, and stump remover. Yum! And
thanks for all the education, entertainment, and inspiration, Jeri!
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Jeri's jumbo joystick
Our intrepid pal Jeri Ellsworth is at it again. Recently, she
attended the Extreme California, the big arcade and pinball machine
meet-up. Always following her own "Did you bring a hack?" ethos,
Jeri whipped together this awesome, jumbo joystick, using parts
from a plastic dome lamp, PVC pipe, some other home store parts,
and lots of LEDs. The game board used in it is the Multi Williams
board that Jeri helped design years ago, for a Multi Williams home
arcade system that flopped. But it's found cool new life here, in
this fun, giant joystick know as the Pacinator. Play with my Giant
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Jeri experiments with electroluminescent phosphor
Those who follow Jeri's mad-scientist-like curiosity and sci-tech
explorations in her many YouTube vids know that she's recently been
hot to create electroluminescence. In this vid, she tries to make
her own phoshor. It didn't quite work out, but she explains the
process and then shows something cool that she did discover,
triboluminescence, the optical phenom that occurs when crystal (or
other) material is crushed, rubbed, pulled apart, etc. (think:
Wint-O-Green Life Savers). Actually, when it's crystals being
crushed, it's more specifically known as fractoluminescence. Keep
at it, Jeri! We know you'll have a homebrewed EL display in no
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Nintendo Zapper-controlled pinball
The 24/7 hardware hacking juggernaut known as Jeri Ellsworth
whipped up this controller hack for a Star Trek pinball game. You
fire a Nintendo Zapper light gun at some IR sensors that trigger
the flipper switches. Jeri shows you the simple circuit she used
and the operation of the machine. Set phasers to frustration...
er... I mean fun! Light Gun Controlled Pinball - Set Phasers to Fun
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Jeri makes integrated circuits
[Jeri Ellsworth] made this silicon inverter at home, by hand. It
took her two years to get the process figured out and achieve
something we didn’t think was possible. The complexity of
manufacture, and the wide range of tools and materials needed seem
insurmountable but she did it anyway. Her home chip fab Flickr set
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Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women in technology
What's Ada Lovelace Day? Ada Lovelace Day is an international day
of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw
attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.
Who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the
world’s first computer programmers, and one of
the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for
doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles
Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose
computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She
also wrote the very first description of a computer and of
software. Use tag #ald10 in your tweets and posts, and share with
us in the comments! Who's an inspiring woman...
