PhreakNIC19 - How to make nearly anything super fast - Chad Ramey
Channel: phreaknicstaff
Date: 21/12/2015

This talk will cover rapid prototyping. Chad will talk about his experiences as a maker and discuss some of the work of the Georgia Institute of Technology's Invention Studio where he served as President. It might even include a sneak peak at his recent passion, building a battlebot.

Computer scientist, roboticist, and garage based nuclear physicist

Chad Ramey attended Georgia Institute of Technology where he majored in computer science. While in highschool, he designed and constructed a inertial electrostatic confinement fusion reactor in his garage. So far in his career at GaTech, Chad has interned at NASA's Johnson Space Center and at Google. In his free time Chad serves as the president of GaTech's Invention Studio, researches for a few labs, and builds things (mostly race cars, robots, and nuclear apparatus).

Chad writes" My current job is finishing up my undergraduate CS degree at GaTech but in my free time, I research under Dr. Thad Starner. My research has been on building custom underwater computers for the Wild Dolphin Project. A program that is using our technology to research human-dolphin communication in the wild."

PhreakNIC is a technology conference held annually in Middle Tennessee. PhreakNIC started as an infosec hacker convention but has expanded over the years to include the maker scene, ham radio, DIY engineering, space and science nerds, the skeptics community, electronic and experimental music, gamers, anime, and general geekery.