An Interview with Eben Upton - Morbus Moilsome MakerFaire

May 28, 2012 · 1 hr 4 min · Episode 97 · 29.0 MB

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Chris just got back from Maker Faire!
Is there a stigma against "Makers" by engineers by profession? There's an article at Engineer Blogs about this subject.
There was an article from the Drive for Innovation stating the engineer's dislike for Makers as well.
No one recognized Chris because of his Twitter picture.
Chris built a 555 boost converter for his bring-along project that then powered some HB LEDs.
Jeff (MightyOhm) was there presenting his open source hardware Geiger counter and showing it off at his booth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3SVE0CQqw
The commerce side of Maker Faire was really comfortable, it was different than conferences, where you should use fake emails and probably don't want to buy from anyone.
We'll be shooting for a guest every other week from now on, feel free to call us on it if you don't hear one.
The crew from Dangerous Prototypes did a fun video on "How To" for Maker Faire. Look for Chris and Bunnie at 1:20 and then Chris later around the 5 minute mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39xX4xi0Uh8

Thanks to Eben for talking to Chris during Maker Faire! And thanks to Element14 for helping set up the interview. It was tons of fun.