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Jeri Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer. She is best known for creating a Commodore 64 emulator within a joystick, in 2004, called Commodore 30-in-1 Direct to TV. That "computer in a joystick" could run 30 video games from the early 1980s, and was very popular during the 2004 Christmas season, at peak selling over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel. Ellsworth currently lives in Seattle.
Ellsworth was born in Yamhill, Oregon, and grew up in the town of Dallas, Oregon, where she was raised by her father, a local Mobil service station owner. As a child, she persuaded her father to let her use a Commodore 64 computer which had been originally purchased for her brother. She taught herself to program by reading the C64's manuals. While at high school, she drove dirt-track race cars with her father, and then began designing new models in his workshop, eventually selling her own custom race cars. This allowed her to drop out of high school to continue the business.
In 1995, at the age of 21, she decided that she wanted to get away from the race car business[citation needed], and she and a friend started an early Intel 486-PC-based business, assembling and selling computers. When she and her partner later had a disagreement, Ellsworth opened a separate business in competition. This new business became a chain of four stores, "Computers Made Easy", selling computer equipment in towns in Oregon. She ran that chain until selling it in 2000, at which point she moved to Walla Walla, Washington and attended Walla Walla College, studying circuit design for about a year. She dropped out due to a "cultural mismatch"; Ellsworth said that questioning professors' answers was frowned upon.
In 2000, Ellsworth attended her first Commodore exposition, where she unveiled a prototype video expansion for the C64. This project later evolved to become the CommodoreOne, a.k.a. the C-One, and C64-DTV.
Ellsworth then began designing computer circuits that mimicked the behavior of her first computer, the Commodore 64. In this way, in 2002, she designed the chip used in the C-One, a board which was co-designed and manufactured by Jens Schönfeld,[4] as an enhanced Commodore 64 which could also emulate other home computers of the early 1980s, including the VIC-20 and Sinclair ZX81. She displayed the C-1 at a technology conference, and she and Schönfeld received enough business to sell a few hundred units. This also led to Ellsworth receiving a job offer from Mammoth Toys, a company which hired her to design the "computer in a chip" for the Commodore-emulating joystick. She began the project in June 2004, and had the project ready to ship by that Christmas. It sold over a half-million units, in the USA, Europe, and elsewhere.
Ellsworth is a pinball machine expert and owns over 90 full sized pinball arcade games. She runs the business, Ricochet Pinball.
On May 30, 2009, Ellsworth demonstrated her Home Chip Lab at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009.
Ellsworth was named "MacGyver of the Day" on February 25, 2010 by Lifehacker
On December 3, 2010 she released information on how to build a TSA "naked" scanner using repurposed satellite antenna parts.
Ellsworth has published numerous technical articles online regarding subjects as diverse as homemade semiconductors (2009), homemade electroluminescent (EL) displays (2010), EL phosphor manufacture from common ingredients and ways to make transparent EL backplanes without using expensive indium-tin-oxide coated glass.
Ellsworth was a keynote speaker at the Embedded Systems Conference on May 5, 2011.
In early 2012 Ellsworth was hired by Valve Corporation (along with several other notable hardware hackers) to work on gaming hardware. I hope this helped!
Jeri Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer. She is best known for creating a Commodore 64 emulator within a joystick, in 2004, called Commodore 30-in-1 Direct to TV. That "computer in a joystick" could run 30 video games from the early 1980s, and was very popular during the 2004 Christmas season, at peak selling over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel. Ellsworth currently lives in Seattle.
Ellsworth was born in Yamhill, Oregon, and grew up in the town of Dallas, Oregon, where she was raised by her father, a local Mobil service station owner. As a child, she persuaded her father to let her use a Commodore 64 computer which had been originally purchased for her brother. She taught herself to program by reading the C64's manuals. While at high school, she drove dirt-track race cars with her father, and then began designing new models in his workshop, eventually selling her own custom race cars. This allowed her to drop out of high school to continue the business.
In 1995, at the age of 21, she decided that she wanted to get away from the race car business[citation needed], and she and a friend started an early Intel 486-PC-based business, assembling and selling computers. When she and her partner later had a disagreement, Ellsworth opened a separate business in competition. This new business became a chain of four stores, "Computers Made Easy", selling computer equipment in towns in Oregon. She ran that chain until selling it in 2000, at which point she moved to Walla Walla, Washington and attended Walla Walla College, studying circuit design for about a year. She dropped out due to a "cultural mismatch"; Ellsworth said that questioning professors' answers was frowned upon.
In 2000, Ellsworth attended her first Commodore exposition, where she unveiled a prototype video expansion for the C64. This project later evolved to become the CommodoreOne, a.k.a. the C-One, and C64-DTV.
Ellsworth then began designing computer circuits that mimicked the behavior of her first computer, the Commodore 64. In this way, in 2002, she designed the chip used in the C-One, a board which was co-designed and manufactured by Jens Schönfeld,[4] as an enhanced Commodore 64 which could also emulate other home computers of the early 1980s, including the VIC-20 and Sinclair ZX81. She displayed the C-1 at a technology conference, and she and Schönfeld received enough business to sell a few hundred units. This also led to Ellsworth receiving a job offer from Mammoth Toys, a company which hired her to design the "computer in a chip" for the Commodore-emulating joystick. She began the project in June 2004, and had the project ready to ship by that Christmas. It sold over a half-million units, in the USA, Europe, and elsewhere.
Ellsworth is a pinball machine expert and owns over 90 full sized pinball arcade games. She runs the business, Ricochet Pinball.
On May 30, 2009, Ellsworth demonstrated her Home Chip Lab at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009.
Ellsworth was named "MacGyver of the Day" on February 25, 2010 by Lifehacker
On December 3, 2010 she released information on how to build a TSA "naked" scanner using repurposed satellite antenna parts.
Ellsworth has published numerous technical articles online regarding subjects as diverse as homemade semiconductors (2009), homemade electroluminescent (EL) displays (2010), EL phosphor manufacture from common ingredients and ways to make transparent EL backplanes without using expensive indium-tin-oxide coated glass.
Ellsworth was a keynote speaker at the Embedded Systems Conference on May 5, 2011.
In early 2012 Ellsworth was hired by Valve Corporation (along with several other notable hardware hackers) to work on gaming hardware. I hope this helped!
HP Envy 14 Beats Edition vs MacBook Pro 13"?
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I have the chance to get a new laptop but I couldn't choose between the Hp Envy 14 Beats Edition and the MacBook Pro. I like how the Envy has the slick, black design with the beats logo and audio. I am pretty serious about music sound quality and the Envy can give you this (I also do have Beats by Dre which I heard is to be amazing when connected with Beats Audio laptops).Yet I love how the Pro also has a slick yet more sturdy design than the PC. Also how it can give you iMovie, iPhoto, iBooks Author and Garageband (These softwares are really important to me). Garageband may not be the best music producing software, yet I do know that it is simple and easy to use. Also I can get the MacBook cheaper if I buy it from my school. The teachers will get me the international keyboard (English/Normal keyboard) and install Microsoft Word and the other apps for free. I also think I can upgrade the specs on the MacBook if I want to. The cost (I live in Europe) of a normal MacBook is about 1500 Euros, yet through the school, I can get it under 1000 Euros. The HP will be have to bought in the U.S. and brought by my relatives. The cost is about 1150 Dollars for the PC. Yet even though the cost is great for the Mac, I really really value the fact that the HP has Beats Audio. That is what is stopping me. Also everyone at my school has a MacBook and I have the thought that it would be cool to be different. It is hard to choose...
Finally the technical details,
HP Envy 14 Beats Edition:
Operating system
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Processor
2nd generation Intel Core i5-2430M Processor 2.40GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.00GHz
Processor speed
2.4GHz
Memory
6GB DDR3 System Memory (2 DIMM); Max supported = 16GB
Accessible memory slots
2
Display
14.5" diagonal High Definition HP BrightView Infinity LED-backlit Display (1366 x 768)
Video graphics
Radeon HD 6630 switchable graphics with 1024MB DDR3 and up to 4096MB total graphics memory
Audio
Beats Audio
Primary CD/DVD drive
Slot-Loading SuperMulti DVD burner
Hard drive
830GB (80GB mSATA SSD + 750GB 7200RPM HDD) with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
Networking
Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Wireless options
Wireless LAN 802.11a/g/n WLAN & Bluetooth with WiDi
PC card slot
Digital Media Card Reader for Secure Digital and Multimedia cards
I/O ports
1 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ; 2 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 ; 1 mini-Display; 1 HDMI ; 1 RJ -45 (LAN) ; 1 Headphone-out/Microphone-in combo
Finish
Aluminum in black with soft-touch surfaces threaded throughout the body ; HP TrueVision HD Webcam with integrated microphone
Software, security and support
HP Support Assistant ; HP Power Manager ; HP Recovery Manager ; The NextBench ; HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection (HP 3D DriveGuard) ; HP CoolSense ; Adobe Reader X ; Adobe Flash Player ; Adobe Shockwave Player ; Microsoft Silverlight
Software, productivity
Microsoft Office Starter: Reduced-functionality Word & Excel w/ ads. No PowerPoint or Outlook. Windows Live Essentials 2011
Software, multimedia
Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 ; Adobe Premiere Elements 9 ; Cyberlink YouCam DE ; HP MovieStore powered by RoxioNow: Rent or buy the latest movies, TV shows and music videos; Beats Audio
Software, internet solutions
Internet Explorer 9 ; HP Wireless Display ; Skype ; Bing Bar for IE 9 (Bing Bar 7)
MacBook Pro (I'm not 100% if I can upgrade specs through school):
2.8GHz dual-core
Intel Core i7
4GB 1333MHz (I might be able to switch it myself to 6GB or 8GB)
750GB 5400-rpm1
Intel HD Graphics 3000
Built-in battery (7 hours)2
(The MacBook shows simpler specs)
Please help!
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go for the macbook pro. it is the first notebook to have 7 hours of battery life and it is powerful and strong. they ran more than 6 programms at the sametime with a fast speed. macbooks never get viruses as pcs.
i used to be a pc lover but the viruses made me buy a new laptop everyday. the envy maybe good in audio but it will cost you alot in the future.
go for the macbook pro. it is the first notebook to have 7 hours of battery life and it is powerful and strong. they ran more than 6 programms at the sametime with a fast speed. macbooks never get viruses as pcs.
i used to be a pc lover but the viruses made me buy a new laptop everyday. the envy maybe good in audio but it will cost you alot in the future.
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