An Interview with Julia Truchsess

Welcome, Julia Truchsess, founder of Pragmatic Designs!

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• Julia got started with Lionel Trains
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• Chris and Julia met on the KiCad forums
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• Hickok Scope
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• Heathkit
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• Moved into professional days
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• Electro Harmonix
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• Mike Matthews
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• Bob Myer worked at Bell Labs
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• EH Big muff pi distortion pedal
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• EH8000
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• Adaptive filter
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• Synthesizer in 78
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• Set up EH in Britain
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• Space Drums
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• Crash Pad
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• Soft Cell (who wrote "Tainted Love", which I think is the song we were discussing)
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• Collectibles
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• The clockworks
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• EH had quality problems in 81
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• Consumer
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• Greeting card
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• VLSI chip
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• 4 bit cops processors
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• Quadlogic
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• ATE for power
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• PLMX
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• Power line communication
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• X10
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• Playtime products
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• "real engineer"
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• Worked 5 years out of a spare bedroom
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• Toy industry
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• Low cost sound chips
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• Shenzhen in 87
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• Figuring out the Taiwan trading company to figure out the voice chip
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• Coding up on DAT tapes
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• Winbond in the speech business
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• Power Speech
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• TI LPC speech
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• Magic bottle baby
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• LR44 cells
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• Singing tree
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• Digital picture frames
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• $450 when they came out
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• Digi-Frame
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• Licensing a design
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• 22 or 23 granted patents
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• Spin master
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• Feasibility studies
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• Toy factories have costing engineer
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• Came back to Connecticut
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• Zildjian cymbals
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• Perforated cymbals
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• Zildjian gen16
• Cymbal being hit in slow motion
• Microchip design partner
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• Consultant stuff from factory
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• TUV Rheinland
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• EMC consulting
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• Henry Ott on The Amp Hour
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• Keith Armstrong
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• 3D printer stuff
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• Zortrax
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• KiCon
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• Express PCB
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• Power distribution
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• Skill building
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