My humble homage to International Women's Day

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

I'm a bit late on this thread I'm afraid - but there's always going to be another womens day :-)

Normally I avoid blogs and video blogs like the plague. But there are a few exceptions, all of them women, because they really talk about stuff that fascinates me and they do it in such a way so that I spare a couple of minutes for their blogs every day. I think those four deserve to be brought to attention at or around womens day - year after year:

Lady Ada. The goddess of all microcontroller tinkerers. Her company "Adafruit" produces all kinds of stuff we makers dream about and her superb tutorials make it easy for us to use it: http://www.ladyada.net/

Amy Shira Teitel. A studied historian specialising in the history of early space flight. For anybody interested in spaceflight before Apollo both her book "Breaking the Chains of Gravity" (actually her master's thesis in book form) and her YouTube channel "Vintage Space" are a must: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw95T_T...ml4xZ9yIqg

Fran Blanche. Electronics tinkerer (and entrepreneur) and spaceflight historian/researcher "par excellance". All her YouTube videos are worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLgHbp...3CkdbvC0Ww

And of course self-taught electronics genius Jeri Ellsworth. Among other things she designed the PCB and ASIC at home (using machinery bought as surplus) used to create the "C64 in a Joystick". Again, there is no YouTube video of hers not worth watching (look especially for her kitchen-made integrated circuits): https://www.youtube.com/user/jeriellsworth