Hailing from the Midwest with a California mindset I’ve always loved the latest and greatest tech. I was building computers before computers were cool and had a deep interest in music from a young age. Creativity, I suppose is the common thread. After learning the drums in 8th grade I went on to learn guitar, bass, ukulele, and a bit of keys. I have been able to merge this with my love for tech ,producing recordings of my original music where I’ve been able to write all the instrumentation. You can learn more about that at my website empthollow.com; linked under the Links section on the Peaberry homepage.
As a child I also had a great intro to electronics, which I have recently revisited to begin creating guitar effects and switching pedals. This was born out of necessity when I bought a new amp and need to change the amp channel and effects chain at the same time. I grew it from there to start bread-boarding some circuits for boost and compression. Pretty quickly the circuits became too complicated to manually solder so once again pulling at my love for technology taught myself how to draw schematics and generate a PCB (printed circuit board) design so I could order the majority of components pre-installed. This quickly created the need for a pedal board, rather than buying one I made one out of wood, and those tools serve the dual purpose to drill the pedal enclosures. You can take a closer look at my work at gargoylefx.com. This is in also in the Links section of the Peaberry home page.
In about the year 2000 I installed my first Linux distribution. Mandrake Linux, to be specific for my fellow Linux nerds. Mandrake no longer exists but served as a great learning platform and gaming OS for Diablo 3 on the LAN back at the pad. Since then I’ve created a Linux distro, Flux Capacity, which no longer exists because I couldn’t keep up with development. You can however still find a couple of reviews. Not one to give up on a passion project, I’m working on a new distro, Peaberry Linux, which, you guessed it, is linked under the Links section of the Peaberry home page.
I am fortunate enough to have an exciting job in Tech where I get to work with AI and other emerging technologies. These technologies are shaping the future how business is done, how content is created and consumed, and how we interact with the world on a daily basis. These changes are nothing short of trans-formative and I am grateful to be a part of shaping how these technologies shape the future.
It’s been an exciting journey to get here, and in some ways it’s only just beginning. Thanks for taking the time to tag along!