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

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4.7 • 1.4K 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	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
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0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:17.0	I'm Tricia Bobita and from W beeze in Chicago this is
0:20.0	Nurdett.
0:21.0	Coming up, Adafrid Becky Stern talks about wearable technology and
0:24.4	computery crafty mischief. And then we remember that time that Abigail Adams
0:28.9	wrote to John Adams and told him to remember the ladies.
0:31.7	spoiler alert he did not.
0:33.6	That in your nerd confessions on Nurdette.
0:35.7	Because everybody's a little nerdy about something.
0:38.3	Make it snappy, nerd!
0:43.2	Nerns!
0:44.2	Nert!
0:48.6	I'm Greta Johnson, I'm Tricia Bobita, and you're listening to Nurdat.
0:52.1	Becky Stern is the director of Wearirables at Eda Fruit.
0:54.0	Eda Fruit is this fantastic site where you can buy all sorts of bits and pieces of making your own computers
1:00.0	and it also means that those tiny computers can be woven into your clothes or
1:03.2	turned into toys and that's where Becky Stern comes in.
1:06.0	I started putting electronics in textile crafts in college so it really comes from a crafty place, less of a gadget place.
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