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Ladyada hosts Andrew “bunnie” Huang on Ask an Engineer [video]

by throwaway000002 on 1/27/17, 4:32 AM with 16 comments

• by Cerium on 1/27/17, 3:28 PM

  When I was in 6th grade I found Ladyada's website, that really annoying one with the white dots you had to click, and saw her newest project, minty mp3. I was really impressed and thought I would never be able to design circuits that well. It was already my goal to be an electrical engineer. Then a year or two later Andrew released his book "Hacking the Xbox", I read that in one sitting. Really awesome work. I was just floored by the confidence to go to all that work setting up a bus tap like that to extract the initialization code.

  Anyway, these two have been people I've been envious of at times and inspirational figures at others. A little random, but I thought I would share.

• by deepnet on 1/27/17, 11:42 AM

  https://youtu.be/gZeCvEa7OqI?t=29m9s Bunnie demonstrates his introspective phone collaboration with Snowden

  https://youtu.be/gZeCvEa7OqI?t=1h17m41s and his microcontroller for papercraft, Chibitronics

• by Jugurtha on 1/27/17, 10:59 AM

  Around 17:45, is he talking about a basis and other keys being a linear combination of basis vectors?

• by kesor on 1/28/17, 11:53 PM

  Resonates really well with this blog post where the author explains how people are in constant contact with technology, but lost the skills to understand how it works.

  http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...

• by geomark on 1/27/17, 1:59 PM

  As a hardware-first kind of guy, I really identify with bunnie. Would love to do the kind of stuff he is doing.

• by kesor on 1/27/17, 5:11 PM

  Almost two hours explaining why DMCA is a direct cause why young Americans are going to be shitty engineers.

• by 77pt77 on 1/27/17, 4:09 PM

  I read that as LadyGaga and was feeling really confused.