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#424 – An Interview with Julia Truchsess
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