Presented at
The Last HOPE (2008),
July 18, 2008, 1 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Microcontrollers can do your bidding. This presentation will show a few fun, simple projects that Mitch has hacked together as examples to show how fun and easy it is to create your own microcontroller projects - even for people who have never built anything in their lives. Sample projects include: The Brain Machine, TV-B-Gone, Trippy RGB Light, LED Cube, Solar BugBot, and Mignonette (a very simple handheld game platform). Basic hardware design, simple firmware design, and how to use the free, open source software available for programming the chips used will be discussed at this talk.
This presentation will provide an introduction for people wanting to participate in the ongoing workshop downstairs where Mitch will have a bunch of soldering stations with enough parts so that people can build their own Brain Machines, TV-B-Gones, Trippy RGB Lights, and Mignonettes which they can then bring home with them.
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Mitch Altman
Mitch Altman has had decades of experience designing cool things with microcontrollers and many years teaching microcontrollers to others. Most well known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a remote control keychain that turns of just about any TV in public places, Mitch has recently written articles for MAKE Magazine, as well as 2600. Other accomplishments include: co-founder of 3ware; founder of a nonprofit vegetarian restaurant; founder of a rural queer arts commune; founder of Hash Wednesday, a fun protest; and one of the developers of VR at VPL. Mitch is now helping create Noisebridge, a new hacker space in San Francisco.
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