Type: Presentation
Topic(s): Engineering
Tags: open+source+hardware open source hardware
Make Senior Editor Phil Torrone and kit-maker Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries discuss how open source hardware is playing out in gadgets, kits and homebrew projects.
Limor Fried is an engineer, artist & hacker. She received her M.Eng in EECS from MIT where she developed and built subversive electronic devices, including a pair of glasses that darken whenever television is in view and a jamming device that disables people's annoying cell phone conversations at the press of a button.
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.
