Martin Brennan is a

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who developed pioneering

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s such as the

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(for

Sinclair Research Sinclair Research Ltd is a British consumer electronics company founded by Clive Sinclair in Cambridge in the 1970s. In 1980, the company entered the home computer market with the ZX80 at £99.95, at that time the cheapest personal computer ...

) and the

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. A physics graduate of

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, he was a co-founder of Flare Technology, a design house involved in the design of the ill-fated

Konix Multisystem The Konix Multisystem was a cancelled video game system under development by Konix, a British manufacturer of computer peripherals. Initial concept The Multisystem began life in 1988 as an advanced Konix peripheral design intended to build o ...

. Brennan initially worked for

where he designed the digital electronics and software in ZX Interface 1 before going on to found Flare with ex-Sinclair colleagues John Mathieson and Ben Cheese. After working at Flare on the ''Flare 1'' and its development into the

, he went on to work for

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developing the Atari Panther and the

. In 1997 Brennan founded the "Cheap & Cheerful Chip Company" which later went on to become Global Silicon Limited. In 2007 Brennan designed the Brennan JB7 digital jukeboxElectronics Weekly 2007-09-26 produced by 3GA Ltd (Third Generation Audio). The second generation audio player, Brennan B2 with web interface, based on the

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chipset, is available as of 2015. In 2019, Brennan released the n Brennan BB1 audio player which shares the same software and architecture of the B2 but packages it in

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format at a lower price. Featuring an integrated speaker and ability to run on 4 AA batteries, the BB1 is controllable via physical buttons or a smartphone/web app and can act also integrate with

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and

Sonos Sonos, Inc. is an American audio equipment manufacturer headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. The company was founded in 2002 by John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen, and Trung Mai. Sonos has partnered with over 100 companies th ...

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*http://www.konixmultisystem.co.uk *http://www.brennan.co.uk Computer hardware engineers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Sinclair Research Alumni of the University of Cambridge {{compu-bio-stub