Make A Living Doing What You Love: How to Bring Your Project From Idea To Reality
Mitch Altman has brought his personal pet projects (including TV-B-Gone universal remote controls) from idea to reality, and is fortunate to make a living doing what he loves. Mitch will outline the practicle steps he took to take his projects from a mere idea, through the steps of research, development, manufacture, sales and distribution, leading, finally, to collecting checks while in the comfort of his home (and while traveling the world). This talk will show the manufacturing process Mitch uses in China. Mitch recently organized a trip to China for Noisebridge, the hackerspace he co-founded in San Francisco -- this talk will include photos of manufacturing process from this trip.
English
Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone remote controls, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places, he also co-founding 3ware (a Silicon Valley RAID controller company), did pioneering work in Virtual Reality at VPL Research, and created the Brain Machine, one of MAKE Magazine's most popular DIY projects. He contributes to MAKE Magazine, and for the last several years has been leading workshops around the world, teaching people to make cool things with microcontrollers and teaching everyone to solder. He is also President and CEO of Cornfield Electronics. (more)
Friday, 4 of December of 2009, from 10:00 to 11:00
Alexandre Gonçalves
Alexandre Pires Sarabuga
Ana Figueiras
André Filipe Duarte Eusébio
André Manuel Pereira Santos
André Santos
Andreia Gaita
Antonio Barcia García
Antonio Borges Rosado
Bruno Alves
Bruno Antunes
Bruno Filipe Monteiro de Almeida
Bruno Lopes
Bruno Morisson
Bruno Pires
Bruno Santos
Bruno Tiago Rodrigues
Carla Vanessa Ferreira Alves Leite
Carlos Anjos
Carlos Brito Lage
Carlos Oliveira
Carlos Rodrigues
Catarina Mota
Cátia Nunes
cíntia pereira
Cláudio Valente
Daniel José Rodrigues de Sousa
David Vitorino
Delfim Machado
Dinis Correia
Diogo José Melo Alves
Eduardo Taborda
Fábio Ferreira
Filipe Manuel Castro Correia
Filipe Manuel Lopes de Freitas
Filipe Varela
Flávio Cruz
Francisco Ascençao
Francisco Lourenço
Gonçalo Fortes
Gonçalo S. Silva
Gustavo Funke
Hugo Baeta
Hugo Monteiro
Joao Azevedo
João Batista
João Bordalo
João Campos
João David Pereira da Costa
João Duarte Gomes
João Filipe Cunha Lopes
João Paulo Carvalho
João Pedro Pereira
João Pescada
joão ramos
João Rui Martins
João Silva
Jorge Miguel Ferreira Alves
Jorge Semião
Jorge Varandas
Jose da Silva
José Pedro Aguiar Airosa
José Rodrigues
José Teixeira
José Vasco Fidalgo Patrício
Lenz Grimmer
Leonardo Jardim Marques
Luís Couto
Luis Lucas Pereira
Luís Miguel Braga
Luis Nabais
Luis Simões
Manuel Silva
Márcio Moreira
Marco Gonçalves
Marco Neves
Marco Sousa
Marcos Garcia
Miguel Lopes Luís
Miguel Nogueira
Nelson Correia
Nuno Alexandre Almeida de Amicis Rebelo
Nuno Cardoso
Nuno da Costa Ferro
Nuno Filipe Marques Cruz
Nuno Paz
Paulo Afonso
Paulo Alexandre Mendes von Doellinger
Paulo Alexandre Nunes Traça
Paulo Correia
Pedro Ângelo
Pedro Cavaco
Pedro Correia
Pedro Diogo
Pedro Gaspar
Pedro Moreira
Pedro Moura Pinheiro
Pedro Santos
Pedro Teixeira
Ricardo Castelhano
Ricardo Ferreira
Ricardo Jorge Martins Piedade
Ricardo Moreira de Carvalho
Ricardo Vercesi
Ricardo Vitorino
Rita Alves
Rosana Margarida Fernandez dos Santos Couceiro
Rui Miguel Miranda Ramos
Rui Patinha
Sérgio Bernardino
Sérgio Santos
Simao Freitas
Tiago
Tiago André
Tiago Boldt Sousa
Tiago Henriques
Tiago Pinto
Tiago Portela
Tiago Sá
Tiago Serra
Violeta
Vitor Gaspar Silva
Vitor Reis
Wilson Manuel Sousa Alberto
Xavi Colomer
Estimated head count: 218 people
(based on the total of persons interested in this talk and the universe of people attending Codebits)