The
Black Forestfire destroyed over 500 Colorado houses in June 2013; one of thosebelonged to longtime Debian developer Bdale Garbee. As he reported duringhis talk at the 2016
linux.conf.au Multimedia and Musicminiconf, the house has been redesigned and rebuilt and life is generally better now. Part of the rebuildingprocess included the incorporation of a whole-house audio system;naturally, Bdale took a unique approach to that task. His talk showed whatcan be done when one starts from scratch - and doesn't mind designing acircuit board along the way.