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 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)