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Favorite projects
- Alarm clock
- Lunar Excursion Module
- SAM D / Patriot missile system
- Submarine detection system
- Electronic drawing board
- RC model boats
- Build-It-Yourself
Adventures
- Farming with my parents
- Playing Tennis on the Spanish Riviera circuit
- Building a Nipa Hut in the Philippines
- Drawing caricatures in blues saloons
- Strumming my Les guitar
Education (BEE, MEE Cornell University)
- Favorite courses, Tennis
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Goal:
Inspire and guide kids to build.
Quote:
‘You can’t win if you don’t bet.” ~ anonymous
Heroes:
Alexander Calder, Rube Goldberg, Don Quixote
Book Fav’s: Atlas Shrugged, Ferdinand, What Would Google Do
Musings:
Online Education
Computer Games
Politics
Self Portrait
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Alarm Clock
Built an alarm clock to wake up for an 8am solid state physics course.
It opened with soft music, then tickled with a feather, then rang a bell.
If that didn’t do the trick a critter swooped down from the ceiling with
a cup full of water.
Lunar Excursion Module
Worked at Grumman Aircraft in the LEM Microelectronics Lab as a
summer intern. It was a lab that had all the ‘Right Stuff.’
SAM D missile system
Built the radar system display logic at Raytheon. First job out of
school. This missile system was a bad big boy toy.
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Submarine detection system
This mean machine was difficult to track. We built a helicopter bourn
system that measured the ionization of water droplets above a
submarine.
Electronic drawing boards
Genigraphics built a $500,000 electronic drawing board. 35mm
Express was a $300 software package for a $2,000 PC that was equally
productive. It was a forerunner of Freelance and PowerPoint.
RC model boats
Built a fleet of remote control boats and sailed them around the US
and Europe.
Tug Boat
Yellow Submarine
Pirate Ship
River Boat
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Build-It-Yourself
Build-It-Yourself has developed a playful, after-school enrichment program, in collaboration
with the MIT community, that teaches kids (8-18) to use technology constructively in a
unique global laboratory. State-of-the-art Internet tools are used to deliver consistent,
high-quality, high-value instruction at a fraction of the cost of traditional instruction.
This project rocks!
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Farming with my parents
3 goats, 2 cows, chickens, ducks and geese galore, multiplying rabbits,
a fishing pond and one amazing cat.
Playing the US Nationals at Forest Hills
Got whopped by Antonio Palifox, #2 hombre from Mexico.
Playing tennis on the Spanish Riviera circuit
El tenis fue bueno. Las señoritas fueron mejores.
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Building a Nipa Hut in the Philippines
Witnessed the most amazing display of teamwork among farmers who
could wield a machete like a brain surgeon working a scalpel.
Drawing caricatures at the local blues saloons
You can find the most soulful looking people hanging out at the
Cantab.
Strumming my guitar
Bach Minuet in G major
Birth of the Blues
Girl from Ipanema
Blues Jam’n
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MEE, BEE Cornell University, New York
Favorite courses
Spanish, Philosophy of Religion, Arc Welding, Graphic Design,
Digital Logic Design
Least favorite course
Solid state physics. Can’t imagine what one could ever build with
eigenvalues that would put a smile on anyone’s face.
Lived in Dorm 6, Sigma Phi fraternity, Quill & Dagger Tower, and a
College Town flophouse next to Zinck’s saloon.
Captained Cornell’s tennis team.
All-Ivy team.
(Received no marriage proposals from this picture in the Cornell
Daily Sun.)
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John Galinato:
269 Pearl Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
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E-mail:
(617) 875-1960
john@build-it-yourself.com
Interest:
Develop technologies that inspire and empower the next generation of builders.
Education:
BEE and MEE; Cornell University (1967, 1968)
Professional Science Teacher; Cambridge Montessori School (1975 - 1978)
Experience:
Worked with Bolt, Beranek & Newman to introduce computers in education.
Manager; Genigraphics Boston / General Electric (1978-1980)
Co-founder / Product Manager, Autographix, Inc. (1980 - 1983)
Sales climbed to over $15 million. Responsible for product development.
President / Founder; Computer Aided Communications, Inc. (1983 - 1993)
Sold exclusive rights to 35mm Express software after 2 years of development.
Founder, Build-It-Yourself (1994 – present)
Project Manager for Interactive Solutions / AGENCY.COM (1997 - 1999)
Board of Directors, Business Graphics, a.s. Oslo, Norway (1986 - 1989)
Advisor, Cornell University East Asia Program (1986 - 1994)