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ASK an ENGINEER - "bunnie" Edition 1/26/2017 9pm ET @bunniestudios @adafruit #adafruit

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Join bunnie (Andrew “bunnie” Huang) http://www.bunniestudios.com/ and Ladyada for an in depth interview and more!

twitter:
https://twitter.com/bunniestudios

If you're interested in the Chibitronics LTC open Beta, you can sign up to be notified when it goes live here:
https://chibitronics.com/love-to-code-signup/

Making Technology Inclusive Through Papercraft and Sound
Introducing the Love to Code Platform

The participation of women in computer education is low; undergraduate classrooms in Germany were only 10% female in 2000[1]. The picture at the primary school level is fuzzier, as students do not declare majors at that level, but evidence indicates the trend starts from a young age. Can we make computer education more gender-inclusive? Presenting technology in familiar, non-threatening contexts can lead to more balanced gender participation. For example, Chibitronics uses the context of papercraft to present electronics to beginners; the familiarity of papercraft improves the participation of women of all ages in the creation of electronics. Based on these learnings, we have devised the “Love to Code” platform, an open source hardware-to-cloud stack which combines the familiarity of paper craft with a web-based, driver-free embedded firmware development environment based on FSK audio provisioning via a headphone jack. In this talk, we will dive into the novel open source technical contributions of this platform, which includes the audio-based provisioning protocol and the unique rigid-flex design of the circuitry enabling papercraft integration, as well as the multi-threaded client OS and cloud infrastructure required to complete the picture. This combination of new technology with familiar interfaces aims to lower the barrier to computer education, thus making coding a more accessible and inclusive activity.

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7975-making_technology_inclusive_through_papercraft_and_sound

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/7975.html

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/speakers/3155.html

bunnie loves hardware. He loves to make it, and to break it; he loves the smell of it.

His passion for hardware began in elementary school, and since then he has garnered a PhD at MIT in EE, and has designed nanophotonic silicon chips, wireless radios, consumer electronics, robotic submarines, and other things. He believes hardware is delightful in part because there are no secrets in hardware; you just need a better microscope. Likewise, he is a proponent of open source hardware, and is an active contributor to the ecosystem. At chumby, he designed several open source hardware platforms, some of which had found its way to the shelves of retailers around the world. Recently he helped to create Novena, an open-source hardware and software laptop, and Chibitronics, a new way construct electronics on unconventional materials such as paper using circuit stickers. bunnie is also an educator; he serves as a Research Affiliate for the MIT Media Lab, technical advisor for several hardware startups and MAKE magazine, and shares his experiences manufacturing hardware in China through his blog. He currently lives in Singapore.

ADAM: A Decentralized Parallel Computer Architecture Featuring
Fast Thread and Data Migration and a Uniform Hardware
http://bunniestudios.com/bunnie/phdthesis.pdf

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Jan 27, 2017 · 174 points, 16 comments · submitted by throwaway000002
deepnet
https://youtu.be/gZeCvEa7OqI?t=29m9s Bunnie demonstrates his introspective phone collaboration with Snowden

https://youtu.be/gZeCvEa7OqI?t=1h17m41s and his microcontroller for papercraft, Chibitronics

Jugurtha
Loading code using sound: https://youtu.be/gZeCvEa7OqI?t=1h23m22s
saycheese
Huang and Snowden’s complete research paper further describing the methodology behind the introspection engine can be found here:

https://assets.pubpub.org/aacpjrja/AgainstTheLaw-CounteringL...

awfullyjohn
Bunnie was part of this great documentary on Shenzhen,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY

Jugurtha
Around 17:45, is he talking about a basis and other keys being a linear combination of basis vectors?
tptacek
There's an example of a similar attack here:

https://cryptome.org/hdcp-4attacks.htm

Jugurtha
Thanks. I don't know anything about crypto so I was just poking in the dark. From the resource I think I wasn't that far off but there's a lot I didn't understand (understood concepts but not consequences).
kesor
Resonates really well with this blog post where the author explains how people are in constant contact with technology, but lost the skills to understand how it works.

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...

geomark
As a hardware-first kind of guy, I really identify with bunnie. Would love to do the kind of stuff he is doing.
kesor
Almost two hours explaining why DMCA is a direct cause why young Americans are going to be shitty engineers.
77pt77
I read that as LadyGaga and was feeling really confused.
Cerium
When I was in 6th grade I found Ladyada's website, that really annoying one with the white dots you had to click, and saw her newest project, minty mp3. I was really impressed and thought I would never be able to design circuits that well. It was already my goal to be an electrical engineer. Then a year or two later Andrew released his book "Hacking the Xbox", I read that in one sitting. Really awesome work. I was just floored by the confidence to go to all that work setting up a bus tap like that to extract the initialization code.

Anyway, these two have been people I've been envious of at times and inspirational figures at others. A little random, but I thought I would share.

Posibyte
I'll second these sentiments. In college, I caught her build log of the original Game Grrl. Seeing her take commodity objects and clone systems and turning it into a lovely end product was my spark to get into the world of hardware.

Her, Andrew Huang, and Ben Heckendorn are wonderfully inspirational creators and hackers that I've on countless occasions referenced and consumed all sorts of projects and ideas from.

anaccountwow
When I was 3rd or 4th grade I would spend a lot of my free time on the internet reading the BenHeck forum. I got a lot of inspiration from the various diy portable builds and broke a lot of game consoles trying to emulate them.
asadlionpk
Yes indeed! I remember lurking on Ladyada's site in my school days looking at cool hacks and tricks.
SexyCyborg
As an unlikely Maker struggling in an environment that's not always very supportive, Bunnie and Limor have my absolute undying loyalty for the way they each reached out with just a simple "Hey, if you need something just let me know". Since then each has periodically checked in to see how I was doing. They are absolutely the real deal and everything the hardware community should be.

Also Limor's husband Phillip- I can't always follow the English in the chat sessions when it gets very technical. He always takes the time to go back and repeat things in simpler terms to keep things accessible to those of us watching who are enthusiastic, but not all that knowledgeable.

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