The Amp Hour

An Interview with Fran Blanche

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Welcome Fran!

  • Fran has a wonderful YouTube channel. She also works on the Dinosaur Den with former guest Bil Herd.
  • Fran's audio company called Frantone recently relaunched. This was after taking a break and briefly working for ElectroHarmonix.
  • Chris recalls buying a pedal from "analog man"
  • Fran sent Dave a board from the launch vehicle
  • Fran also made multiple videos about the LVDC saturn. The boards used DTL logic.
  • XKCD's Up Goer Five is a great poster.
  • Dave was talking about a Daisy wheel printer
  • George RR Martin uses a DOS wordstar.
  • Apollo DSKY display
  • Archivists recently uncovered a private stash of stuff from Armstrong's collection.
  • The Smithsonian has a wide range of experimental and historical vehicles. Fran did a video tour  a while back.
  • The audio appearance of Mr T has been shown on Fran's channel in the past:
  • Lone inventors like Tesla,  Philo Farnsworth,Edwin Armstrong (among others) were "lone inventors" but were on the shoulders of giants.
  • Chris has been reading Tesla's Colorado Springs notes.
  • Fran asserts that Elon Musk is closer to Edison...a super effective administrator.
  • Stephen Hawking is worried about the limit of human understanding. A combination of Woz/Musk/Hawking are worried about AI.
  • The gun toting drone was...interesting...
  • Frantone electronics are currently manufactured by Barefoot Electronics out of St Louis
  • Fran also does textiles via the Contour Corsets brand.
  • The 8038 analog generation chip
  • Chris asks about the hybridization of pedals and is readily shut down by Fran and Dave.
  • Instead it'd be better to generate a sine via a Wien bridge oscillator, like the original HP 200a.
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