Session Title

Make A Living Doing What You Love: How to Bring Your Project From Idea To Reality

Abstract

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.

Language

English

Speakers

Mitch Altman

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)

Where

Stage 3

When

Friday, 4 of December of 2009, from 10:00 to 11:00

Files and video

Video

Slideshare

Attendees

Alexandre Pires Sarabuga Ana Figueiras André Santos Andreia Gaita Antonio Borges Rosado Bruno Alves Bruno Filipe Monteiro de Almeida Bruno Lopes Bruno Morisson Bruno Pires Bruno Santos Bruno Tiago Rodrigues Carla Vanessa F. A. Leite Carlos Anjos Carlos Brito Lage Carlos Oliveira Carlos Rodrigues Cátia Nunes Cláudio Valente Delfim Machado Dinis Correia Diogo José Melo Alves Eduardo Taborda Fábio Ferreira Filipe Varela Francisco Ascençao Francisco Lourenço Gonçalo Fortes Gonçalo S. Silva Gustavo Funke Hugo Baeta Joao Azevedo João Batista João Campos João David Pereira da Costa João Paulo Carvalho João Pedro Pereira joão ramos João Rui Martins João Silva Jorge Miguel Ferreira Alves Jorge Varandas Jose da Silva José Pedro Aguiar Airosa José Rodrigues José Teixeira José Vasco Fidalgo Patrício Lenz Grimmer Leonardo Jardim Marques Luís Couto Luís Miguel Braga Luis Nabais Luis Simões Manuel Silva Márcio Moreira Marco Sousa Marcos Garcia 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 Nunes Traça Paulo Correia Pedro Ângelo Pedro Cavaco Pedro Correia Pedro Diogo Pedro Gaspar Pedro Moreira Pedro Moura Pinheiro Pedro Santos Pedro Teixeira Ricardo Ferreira Ricardo Jorge Martins Piedade Ricardo Moreira de Carvalho Ricardo Vercesi Ricardo Vitorino Rita Alves Rosana Margarida Couceiro Rui Patinha Sérgio Bernardino Sérgio Santos Tiago Tiago André Tiago Boldt Sousa Tiago Henriques Tiago Pinto Tiago Portela Tiago Serra Vitor Gaspar Silva Vitor Reis Wilson Manuel Sousa Alberto

Estimated head count: 165 people
(based on the total of persons interested in this talk and the universe of people attending Codebits)