02 — Andrew “bunnie” Huang : Researcher and hacker
01 background
Go ahead and hop onto bunnie’s blog!
wiki bio
So what’s the deal with Andrew?
1 Ph.D in electrical engineering
2 Developed a programmable circuit stickers that encourage more girls to experiment with electronics and physical computing (teamwork with a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab)
3 With goal of helping Fukushima’s citizens after the disaster in 2011, he created a reference design for a cheap Geiger counter to any detect environmental radiation product of the Daiichi event.
If you are interested in his Thesis about Computer Architecture:
02 talks
From an Academic Researcher to an Open Source Activist | Bitmark Talk
This one is a short but great talk! Andrew share some of his past (and recent) projects, like Chumby, Novena/Heirloom Laptop, and Betrusted — a cryptoprocessor with a display and keyboard.
Making and breaking hardware | ToorCamp 2018 — Keynote
Some insights about Software+Hardware, intellectual freedom, ownership norms, and of course, business models.
The West largely shed its electronics manufacturing base to Asia, while lobbyists pushed laws that criminalized exploration and reinforced IP monopolies
Walking in awe through Shenzhen’s massive supply that for the past +30 years has been doing hardware (CPUs, FR-4,) and basic business is just not surprising at all right?
Ironically, what we’ve forgotten isn’t hardware — what we’ve forgotten is what it’s like to have the freedom to explore and innovate in hardware.
There will always be the risk of surrendering control over HW/SW that just runs our daily lives and interactions with other people.
If you are interested in this topics, let’s talk about it in the comments below. Thank you for reading.
I’ll see you later in the not so distant future!
