bunnie will present a retrospective on his experiences manufacturing and selling open source hardware with chumby. He'll share some secrets of the trade, as well as summarize key challenges encountered in going to retail, and operating a startup in the consumer electronics market.

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Bunnie Huang

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. His most recent startup was chumby, where he designed several open source hardware platforms, some of which had found its way to the shelves of retailers around the world.

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