A friend of my parents is a Renaissance man too he is nearing 70 now.
In his younger years he reversed engineered the apple2 and excels in music, painting and and of course hacking like there is no tomorrow. He can literally build anything he wants to.
He is an expert in assembler and and a couple of higher level languages, but it is his assembler skills that have always amazed me because he would always produce some crazy hardware for his many passions. And he had many. This was besides running a successful bank security company.
He is a watch geek and is building this in half size from scratch litterally.
I somehow wonder how many Da Vinci's are out there with these kind skills. I can't even begin to think who they manage.
Would be cool to do a series of some of these older hackers.
A friend of my parents is a Renaissance man too he is nearing 70 now.
In his younger years he reversed engineered the apple2 and excels in music, painting and and of course hacking like there is no tomorrow. He can literally build anything he wants to.
He is an expert in assembler and and a couple of higher level languages, but it is his assembler skills that have always amazed me because he would always produce some crazy hardware for his many passions. And he had many. This was besides running a successful bank security company.
He is a watch geek and is building this in half size from scratch litterally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Olsen's_World_Clock
One of the wrenches is 400 years to resolve around it's own axis.
Here is some of that work. /000fff.org/watches/523223_10150679399796150_1501393655_n.jpg And here are some more of his work: http://000fff.org/watches/134363_468677071149_7733152_o.jpg http://000fff.org/watches/135126_468676956149_1839796_o.jpg http://000fff.org/watches/169423_468677241149_6736953_o.jpg
He also designed this small boat harbour for the local area he lives in https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=bryggen%2C+copenhagen.... because he bought a boat.
I somehow wonder how many Da Vinci's are out there with these kind skills. I can't even begin to think who they manage. Would be cool to do a series of some of these older hackers.