Jeri Ellsworth: The *Uber* Ubergeek
While there are a number of women in the world whose skills I admire, Jeri Ellsworth is one of the few I’d want to hack with side-by-side. Often, I can get a decent view of a person’s hacking or “make-ing” skills by reading their posts or checking out their schematics, but there’s something about the way Jeri Ellsworth talks about tech that makes me want to be in the room with my sleeves rolled up duplicating whatever she’s doing while she hacks on something on her workbench.
Ellsworth is a native Oregonian and a born DIYer. When she was a kid, she taught herself to program on a Commodore 64. Later, she got into racing cars, then went back to computers during the mid-1990s PC gold rush. Check out her Wikipedia page for more information about her background, but for the best picture of her humble tech beginnings and the development of her amazing skillset, watch this *great* video in which Ellsworth, a high-school (and later college) drop-out, talks about her tech origins to some folks at Stanford University.
Ellsworth has her hands in many projects, including Fat Man And Circuit Girl, a live streaming video program that features hacks of all kinds. In this sample of the show, Ellsworth talks about a COne project involving her first love, the Commodore 64. In another video, she condenses her format to a short lesson for a broader audience.
Be sure to check out Fat Man and Circuit Girl for more of Jeri Ellsworth’s exploits.
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July 6th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Great post. I wasn’t familiar with Jeri before reading this. Her enthusiasm is really inspiring. Thanks!