When I was in 6th grade I found Ladyada's website, that really annoying one with the white dots you had to click, and saw her newest project, minty mp3. I was really impressed and thought I would never be able to design circuits that well. It was already my goal to be an electrical engineer. Then a year or two later Andrew released his book "Hacking the Xbox", I read that in one sitting. Really awesome work. I was just floored by the confidence to go to all that work setting up a bus tap like that to extract the initialization code.

Anyway, these two have been people I've been envious of at times and inspirational figures at others. A little random, but I thought I would share.

https://youtu.be/gZeCvEa7OqI?t=29m9s Bunnie demonstrates his introspective phone collaboration with Snowden

https://youtu.be/gZeCvEa7OqI?t=1h17m41s and his microcontroller for papercraft, Chibitronics

Around 17:45, is he talking about a basis and other keys being a linear combination of basis vectors?

Resonates really well with this blog post where the author explains how people are in constant contact with technology, but lost the skills to understand how it works.

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...

As a hardware-first kind of guy, I really identify with bunnie. Would love to do the kind of stuff he is doing.

Almost two hours explaining why DMCA is a direct cause why young Americans are going to be shitty engineers.

I read that as LadyGaga and was feeling really confused.