Stage A , Sunday 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
People knit scarves and solder radios together in their homes and garages. In contrast, companies produce high-tech things by high-tech processes. A host of new tools is making many of the resources previously available only to companies accessible to individuals, empowering people to design, engineer, and build devices that integrate high and low technology.
Leah Buechley is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab where she directs the High-Low Tech research group.