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Hi, I'm Ralph.

= Things I do =

*Software product management (figuring out which features are valuable for users, versus being easy to engineer)
*User Interface Design 
*information security
*technology for political campaigns (LANS, printing, secure file sharing)

== Things I'm building ==

* [http://www.midibox.org/ MIDIBox] (plus the SID add-on)
* SN-Voice analog synthesizer using the old-school SN76477 chip

== I want to do more of ==
* Software defined radio (aka [[Wikipedia:GNU Radio|GNU Radio]])
* Amateur [[Wikipedia:Radio Astronomy|Radio Astronomy]]

== Things I've done ==
*Run a robotics club at a local high school
**the kids were enthusiastic, and we did a sumobot competition at the end of the year

== Things I use ==
* [[Arduino]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux]
* Green laser pointer (for astronomy)

== Things I collect ==
* Vintage computing devices, Apple //, C64, Atari 130xe (but with I had an 800), documentation for the ECD Micromind
* ICs I think I might need in the future

=== Things I miss ===
* Apple Computer, Inc.  (as a consumer products company featuring DRM, Apple, Inc just isn't the same)

=== Music I like ===
All of it, but especially:
*Early Queen (A day at the races)
*Classic analog synth albums (Wendy Carlos, Switched on Bach)
*Stevie Wonder
*Jazz Dudes
**Maynard Ferguson
**Chick Corea
**Herbie Hancock
*Piano and Guitar
**Liz Story
**other Windham Hill artists


== Skills ==

These are semantic properties of type [[Skill]] so that they may appear automatically on the [[Skills Exchange]] page.  

Programming
* [[Skill::C/C++]]
* [[Skill::Linux]]
* [[Skill::Java]]
* [[Skill::User Interface]]
* [[Skill::Wiki]]

Electronics Design
* [[SkillWanted::OpenSCAD]]

Math
* [[SkillWanted::Laplace Transform]]


Hardware
* [[Skill::Soldering]]

Biology & Chemistry
* [[SkillWanted::Sustainable Ecology]]