January 07, 2019

An Interview with Julia Truchsess

1 hour 30 minutes

Welcome, Julia Truchsess, founder of Pragmatic Designs!

See all products discussed on today’s show in the Pragmatic Designs Gallery.

Julia got started with Lionel Trains

0h 1m 21s

Chris and Julia met on the KiCad forums

0h 1m 39s

Hickok Scope

0h 2m 27s

Heathkit

0h 2m 54s

Moved into professional days

0h 3m 33s

Electro Harmonix

0h 4m 41s

Mike Matthews

0h 4m 54s

Bob Myer worked at Bell Labs

0h 5m 5s

EH Big muff pi distortion pedal

0h 5m 18s

EH8000

0h 6m 35s

Adaptive filter

0h 8m 7s

Synthesizer in 78

0h 13m 1s

Set up EH in Britain

0h 13m 34s

Space Drums

0h 14m 3s

Crash Pad

0h 15m 23s

Soft Cell (who wrote "Tainted Love", which I think is the song we were discussing)

0h 16m 25s

Collectibles

0h 16m 59s

The clockworks

0h 17m 7s

EH had quality problems in 81

0h 18m 30s

Consumer

0h 20m 34s

Greeting card

0h 22m 43s

VLSI chip

0h 22m 49s

4 bit cops processors

0h 24m 54s

Quadlogic

0h 25m 27s

ATE for power

0h 25m 50s

PLMX

0h 26m 4s

Power line communication

0h 26m 55s

X10

0h 27m 54s

Playtime products

0h 29m 44s

"real engineer"

0h 30m 45s

Worked 5 years out of a spare bedroom

0h 32m 1s

Toy industry

0h 32m 54s

Low cost sound chips

0h 35m 56s

Shenzhen in 87

0h 38m 48s

Figuring out the Taiwan trading company to figure out the voice chip

0h 39m 31s

Coding up on DAT tapes

0h 40m 6s

Winbond in the speech business

0h 41m 27s

Power Speech

0h 41m 40s

TI LPC speech

0h 44m 12s

Magic bottle baby

0h 45m 27s

LR44 cells

0h 46m 42s

Singing tree

0h 48m 18s

Digital picture frames

0h 48m 22s

$450 when they came out

0h 48m 59s

Digi-Frame

0h 49m 25s

Licensing a design

0h 52m 28s

22 or 23 granted patents

0h 55m 6s

Spin master

0h 57m 3s

Feasibility studies

0h 58m 7s

Toy factories have costing engineer

1h 0m 42s

Came back to Connecticut

1h 1m 47s

Zildjian cymbals

1h 2m 13s

Perforated cymbals

1h 3m 23s

Zildjian gen16

Cymbal being hit in slow motion

Microchip design partner

1h 12m 49s

Consultant stuff from factory

1h 15m 46s

TUV Rheinland

1h 15m 57s

EMC consulting

1h 18m 1s

Henry Ott on The Amp Hour

1h 20m 54s

Keith Armstrong

1h 21m 0s

3D printer stuff

1h 21m 53s

Zortrax

1h 23m 16s

KiCon

1h 24m 20s

Express PCB

1h 24m 38s

Power distribution

1h 29m 15s

Skill building

1h 30m 26s

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January 07, 2019

An Interview with Julia Truchsess

1 hour 30 minutes

Welcome, Julia Truchsess, founder of Pragmatic Designs!

See all products discussed on today’s show in the Pragmatic Designs Gallery.

Julia got started with Lionel Trains

0h 1m 21s

Chris and Julia met on the KiCad forums

0h 1m 39s

Hickok Scope

0h 2m 27s

Heathkit

0h 2m 54s

Moved into professional days

0h 3m 33s

Electro Harmonix

0h 4m 41s

Mike Matthews

0h 4m 54s

Bob Myer worked at Bell Labs

0h 5m 5s

EH Big muff pi distortion pedal

0h 5m 18s

EH8000

0h 6m 35s

Adaptive filter

0h 8m 7s

Synthesizer in 78

0h 13m 1s

Set up EH in Britain

0h 13m 34s

Space Drums

0h 14m 3s

Crash Pad

0h 15m 23s

Soft Cell (who wrote "Tainted Love", which I think is the song we were discussing)

0h 16m 25s

Collectibles

0h 16m 59s

The clockworks

0h 17m 7s

EH had quality problems in 81

0h 18m 30s

Consumer

0h 20m 34s

Greeting card

0h 22m 43s

VLSI chip

0h 22m 49s

4 bit cops processors

0h 24m 54s

Quadlogic

0h 25m 27s

ATE for power

0h 25m 50s

PLMX

0h 26m 4s

Power line communication

0h 26m 55s

X10

0h 27m 54s

Playtime products

0h 29m 44s

"real engineer"

0h 30m 45s

Worked 5 years out of a spare bedroom

0h 32m 1s

Toy industry

0h 32m 54s

Low cost sound chips

0h 35m 56s

Shenzhen in 87

0h 38m 48s

Figuring out the Taiwan trading company to figure out the voice chip

0h 39m 31s

Coding up on DAT tapes

0h 40m 6s

Winbond in the speech business

0h 41m 27s

Power Speech

0h 41m 40s

TI LPC speech

0h 44m 12s

Magic bottle baby

0h 45m 27s

LR44 cells

0h 46m 42s

Singing tree

0h 48m 18s

Digital picture frames

0h 48m 22s

$450 when they came out

0h 48m 59s

Digi-Frame

0h 49m 25s

Licensing a design

0h 52m 28s

22 or 23 granted patents

0h 55m 6s

Spin master

0h 57m 3s

Feasibility studies

0h 58m 7s

Toy factories have costing engineer

1h 0m 42s

Came back to Connecticut

1h 1m 47s

Zildjian cymbals

1h 2m 13s

Perforated cymbals

1h 3m 23s

Zildjian gen16

Cymbal being hit in slow motion

Microchip design partner

1h 12m 49s

Consultant stuff from factory

1h 15m 46s

TUV Rheinland

1h 15m 57s

EMC consulting

1h 18m 1s

Henry Ott on The Amp Hour

1h 20m 54s

Keith Armstrong

1h 21m 0s

3D printer stuff

1h 21m 53s

Zortrax

1h 23m 16s

KiCon

1h 24m 20s

Express PCB

1h 24m 38s

Power distribution

1h 29m 15s

Skill building

1h 30m 26s

...more

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