An Interview with Fran Blanche

Welcome Fran!

• Fran has a wonderful YouTube channel. She also works on the Dinosaur Den with former guest Bil Herd.
• Fran's audio company called Frantone recently relaunched. This was after taking a break and briefly working for ElectroHarmonix.
• Chris recalls buying a pedal from "analog man"
• Fran sent Dave a board from the launch vehicle
• Fran also made multiple videos about the LVDC saturn. The boards used DTL logic.
• XKCD's Up Goer Five is a great poster.
• Dave was talking about a Daisy wheel printer
• George RR Martin uses a DOS wordstar.
• Apollo DSKY display
• Archivists recently uncovered a private stash of stuff from Armstrong's collection.
• The Smithsonian has a wide range of experimental and historical vehicles. Fran did a video tour a while back.
• The audio appearance of Mr T has been shown on Fran's channel in the past:
• Lone inventors like Tesla, Philo Farnsworth,Edwin Armstrong (among others) were "lone inventors" but were on the shoulders of giants.
• Chris has been reading Tesla's Colorado Springs notes.
• Fran asserts that Elon Musk is closer to Edison...a super effective administrator.
• Stephen Hawking is worried about the limit of human understanding. A combination of Woz/Musk/Hawking are worried about AI.
• The gun toting drone was...interesting...
• Frantone electronics are currently manufactured by Barefoot Electronics out of St Louis
• Fran also does textiles via the Contour Corsets brand.
• The 8038 analog generation chip
• Chris asks about the hybridization of pedals and is readily shut down by Fran and Dave.
• Instead it'd be better to generate a sine via a Wien bridge oscillator, like the original HP 200a.