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I'm based out of Pasadena. I'm a Electrical Engineer by training (went to Caltech)
but have done lots of web engineering during the start of the web.
For a bit I also worked on the firmware and hardware for space cameras that went to Mars.
Now I'm doing lots of various hacking things.
My company ThingM (http://thingm.com/) is a ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) design studio.
We do ubicomp research and are planning on releasing commercial retail products.
ThingM also produces a few hacker tools: BlinkM, BlinkM MaxM,
and the "Wiichuck adapter"
I'm also part of WingShield Industries, makers of the ScrewShield for Arduino,
with John Park and Brian Jepson of Make Magazine.
I've written a few articles for Make Magazine, the most recent of which was the
Servomotor Primer in Make #19 (http://makezine.com/19/primer/)
I also wrote a book called Hacking Roomba. If you recall seeing a Roomba hack in 2006-7, it was probably mine.
Arduino is a big favorite of mine. In 2006-7 I taught a series of Arduino classes at
Machine Project that seemed pretty successful: Spooky Arduino (http://todbot.com/blog/spookyarduino/)
and Bionic Arduino (http://todbot.com/blog/bionicarduino/)
In the last year or so I've been working with local artists, discovering ways of melding
technology into art. A recent example of this is the "Crystal Monster" I worked on with
Beverly Tang. See in here http://sublimina.com/work/crystal-monster.
I wrote up a slightly more technical description of it on my blog.
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