Maker Faire Bay Area 2007

Make Your Own Cool Devices: The Marathon

Type: Maker Workbench

Topic(s): Engineering

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Microcontrollers do your bidding! Use inexpensive MiniPOV kits to make quirky gadgets like trippy colored blinky lights, brainwave hallucinators, a simplified TV-B-Gone, or EL-wire sequencers.

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About the Maker(s)

Mitch Altman

Mitch Altman

Though most (in)famous for inventing the wildly popular TV-B-Gone, a keychain that makes it fun to turn off TVs in public places, Mitch Altman is an inventor with decades of experience with microcontrollers and teaching. He is also co-founder of Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, and contributes to MAKE Magazine.

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