Jeri Janet Ellsworth (born August 14, 1974) is an American entrepreneur, computer chip designer and inventor.

[3][4] It runs 30 video games from the 1980s, and at peak, sold over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel.

In response her father stopped buying toys, put an empty box at his work saying "bring your broken electronic gizmos", and every few weeks, gave them to her.

She earned spending money working for her father, pumping gas, cleaning wrenches, replacing oil filters, and other "mechanical things".

[4] In 1995, at the age of 21, Ellsworth tired of race track social atmosphere,[8] so she and a friend started a business assembling and selling computers based around the Intel 486 microprocessor.

This became a chain of four stores, "Computers Made Easy", selling consumer electronics services and equipment in the Willamette Valley towns of Canby,[10] Monmouth, and Albany, Oregon.

She did not receive payment, nor the commission she was owed,[8] but a story in the New York Times brought her to the public eye.

[4][8] On December 3, 2010 Ellsworth released information on how to build a TSA "naked" scanner using repurposed satellite antenna parts.

Initially scheduled to deliver Kickstarter product by June 2020, the manufacturing was delayed by the Covid pandemic, but has continued to sign gaming contracts.

[8] From December 2008 until March 2009, Ellsworth hosted a weekly webcast, Fatman and Circuit Girl, together with musician George Sanger.