Adafruit's Becky Stern, Breakfast Club remake and a big announcement

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Becky Stern, the queen of wearable technology, tells us about making mischief with computery crafts. The Breakfast Club’s John Kapelos gives homework and we’ve got a big announcement for fans of Peter Sagal and/or Game of Thrones.

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.0	Listen, wherever you get your podcast.
0:32.3	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:33.2	I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:36.0	And from WB. BeEZ in Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:41.6	Coming up, Aida Fruit, Becky Stern talks about wearable technology and computery crafty mischief.
0:47.1	And then we remember that time that Abigail Adams wrote to John Adams and told him to remember the ladies.
0:48.6	Spoiler alert, he did not.
0:50.9	That and your nerd confessions on Nerdette. Because everybody's a little nerdy about something.
0:56.9	Make it snappy, nerd!
0:59.0	Nerds!
0:59.6	Nerd!
1:03.7	I'm Greta Johnson.
1:04.9	I'm Tricia Bobita.
1:05.8	And you're listening to Nerdat.
1:07.6	Becky Stern is the director of wearables at Ada Fruit.
1:09.7	AdaFruit is this fantastic site where
1:11.6	you can buy all sorts of bits and pieces of making your own computers. And it also means that those
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