Mitch Altman is Unit One/Allen Hall Guest in Residence from 2/25/18 – 3/9/18:  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.

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