Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Making Open Source Hardware into a Kit Business

MAKE Demos , Saturday 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Thinking of selling your invention? MAKE Senior Editor Phil Torrone explains how to get started making kits, and how openly sharing your design helps more people enjoy your kit, and helps you improve it.

Stage C , Sunday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM


Thinking of selling your cool invention? Learn how sharing your design makes it easier for more people to enjoy your kit, improve it, and share it in turn. MAKE Senior Editor Phil Torrone has built or blogged most of the DIY electronics kits out there, and he's helped develop open source kits like the Tweet-A-Watt.

Web site: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/tweetawatt_our_entry_for_the_core77.html

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About the Maker(s)

Phillip Torrone
Phillip Torrone is an author, artist, and engineer and is senior editor of MAKE. He is also the Keeper of the Blog on Makezine.com. He has authored and contributed to numerous books on programming, mobile devices, design, multimedia, and hardware hacking; he regularly writes for Popular Science. His projects have appeared in Wired, Popular Science, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, G4TechTV, NPR, and elsewhere. Phillip also produces the MAKE audio and video content on the Makezine.com site. Prior to MAKE, Phillip was director of Product Development for creative firm Fallon Worldwide, best known for their award-winning work on BMW Films.
http://makezine.com/blog/