Together they attended meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club - a group of computer hobbyists.
Participants can sample homebrew from among the thousands of entrants in the homebrew competition.
Homebrew can be excellent, but it is highly variable, sometimes lumpy and lacks a certain cachet.
In contrast to the homebrew potential on Memory Stick, there is no way for consumers to burn UMDs.
SImply because the cost is lower and can be used with homebrew ingredients.
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Thus, boiling mad, Gates writes a letter to the free-software bums at the Homebrew Computer Club in Menlo Park, Calif.
This plugs the brand and nudges people to trade up, from homebrew to mass-produced beer and finally to premium brands.
SABMiller, which operates in 37 African countries, is trying to woo homebrew-lovers with sorghum and cassava beers that are consistently good.
They are slightly sweeter and fuller-bodied than a mainstream lager, and cost a third less (though still far more than untaxed homebrew).
They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club.
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Papazian's collectionPapazian, who has brewed over 500 different styles of beer, took correspondent Bruce Burkhardt on a personal tour of his treasured homebrew collection.
Most importantly, perhaps 60% of African drinkers slake their thirst with homebrew rather than branded booze, so there is plenty of room to upgrade.
They've also got other slightly more innocuous devices like that snazzy 4GB DS-Xtreme which gives you homebrew action on the DS without any hacking.
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We also took the time to speak to some PDX residents, including Core77 co-founder Eric Ludlum and some local modders showing off their homebrew projects.
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Indeed, such was the crossover that Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak belonged to a group of hackers and hobbyists called the Homebrew Computer Club.
Natrium 42's homebrew kit is an open robot platform that lets you control your RoboDS (pictured right) with an NDS WiFi connection through a web browser interface.
It didn't take the community long to catch up, though -- the homebrew channel was working its way onto select systems using tried and true methods since launch day.
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Although its efforts were quickly circumvented by Hackmii's LetterBomb installer, the Wii's 4.3 update was Nintendo's last stand against the homebrew community -- it hasn't offered an update since.
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Apparently a bootable Linux DVD is on the way, and we can't wait to see what homebrew coders manage to pull off with that Wiimote pointed where it belongs.
Like the PlayStation Vita's PSP-based homebrew loader, this exploit is trapped in the sandbox of its original hardware, effectively blocking it from making the most of the Wii U's fancy internals.
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Charlie Papazian Few have done more to inspire brewing at home than Charlie Papazian, a master brewer, author of how-to books on homebrewing and one of the pioneers of the homebrew movement.
The homebrew scene hasn't gotten a whole lot accomplished with this latest round of home consoles -- which isn't surprising given the difficulty of the task and lack of incentives to succeed.
It was in the summer of the Bicentennial, when Steve Wozniak, wanting to impress his friends at the homebrew computer club, set about building the Apple I and set the PC revolution in motion.
The vanguard of this group was a motley set of people who styled themselves as the Homebrew Computer Club, which would probably qualify as the first industry association for the computer and electronics business.
"I call it Homebrew Health, " says one angel investor, alluding to the Homebrew Computer Club of the 1970s, the group of electronic enthusiasts, including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, whose technology hobby led to the birth of the personal computer.
The Wii was compromised pretty early on to be able to play burned discs and GameCube homebrew such as Linux, but until now Nintendo has managed to isolate Wii hardware such as the extra horsepower of the console and wireless connectivity from hackers.
After witnessing the fall of the DS, DSi, 3DS and PlayStation Vita, it's no surprise to hear that the Neo Geo X has succumbed to the talents of the homebrew community, but it is a little shocking how easy the handheld was to conquer.
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Instead of using a timer or a plunger or another reliable detonation mechanism, as would any commercial user of PETN, he had to resort to an ad hoc homebrew -- and a much more inefficient one, involving a syringe, and 20 minutes in the lavatory, and we don't know exactly what else -- that didn't explode.
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