Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing the TV-B-Gone remote control, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He co-founded 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 leads workshops around the world, teaching people to make cool things with microcontrollers, as well as promoting hackerspaces and open source hardware. Altman is co-founder of Noisebridge, and President and CEO of Cornfield Electronics. Make Magazine has referred to Altman as "the Johnny Appleseed of hackerspaces", and he was awarded the first "Maker Hero" award, named in his honor.
Due to supply costs, many of his workshops are only open to Allen Hall residents. The following events are open to anyone.
Monday, February 29, 2016
7:00 p.m. – Opening Program: Hack Your Life for Fun and Profit (south rec rm) (Open to anyone)
9:00 p.m. – Tea Time: Creating and being part of supportive community - the hackerspace movement (guest apartment)
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Make your own multi-color blinky light badge! (south rec rm) (Open to anyone)
Anyone and everyone can learn to solder! It's easy! It's fun! Mitch can teach you!
Sunday, March 13, 2016
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. - Making way cool sounds & music: Basics of Digital Signal Processing workshop (south rec rm) (Open to anyone)
Digital Signal Processing is really cool. And it's not all that hard to learn to play with. Let's come together to learn the basics, and understand how to make way cool noise, sound, and music with microcontrollers.
Thanks to Laura Haber of Allen Hall for this information item.
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