{"id":5418,"date":"2017-02-13T20:57:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T01:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2018-05-25T03:18:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:18:59","slug":"mitch-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/mitch-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9118\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5418-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/MitchAltman.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/MitchAltman.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/MitchAltman.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_5429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5429\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5429\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mitch_Altman_Chaos_Communication_Camp_2011.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mitch_Altman_Chaos_Communication_Camp_2011.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mitch_Altman_Chaos_Communication_Camp_2011.jpg?resize=768%2C1153&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mitch_Altman_Chaos_Communication_Camp_2011.jpg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mitch_Altman_Chaos_Communication_Camp_2011.jpg?resize=624%2C937&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mitch_Altman_Chaos_Communication_Camp_2011.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mitch_Altman_Chaos_Communication_Camp_2011.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitch Altman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvbgone.com\/\">TV-B-Gone <\/a>remote controls, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places.\u00a0 He was also co-founder of 3ware, a successful Silicon Valley startup in the late 1990s, and did pioneering work in Virtual Reality in the mid-1980s.\u00a0 He has contributed to MAKE Magazine and other magazines, and wrote a chapter for \u201cMaker Pro\u201d, a book about making a living from projects one loves.\u00a0 For the last several years Mitch has been giving talks, and leading workshops around the world, teaching people to make cool things with microcontrollers and teaching everyone to solder.\u00a0 He promotes <a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/Mitch-Altman-at-TEDxBrussels\">hackerspaces<\/a> and open source hardware, and mentors others wherever he goes. He is a co-founder of Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, and is President and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The book mentioned in the interview is:\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushkoff.com\/books\/life-inc\/\">Life Inc.:\u00a0 How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back<\/a>&#8220;, by Douglas Rushkoff.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5430\" style=\"width: 641px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5430\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/robotarms.png?resize=641%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"641\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/robotarms.png?w=532&amp;ssl=1 532w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/robotarms.png?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kal at work on our Split Brain Robotics project &#8212; a brainwave controlled pair of robots, where participants try to make them kiss each other.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/MitchAltman.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMitch Altman is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone remote controls, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places.\u00a0 He was also co-founder of 3ware, a successful Silicon Valley startup in the late 1990s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26,17],"tags":[76,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-5418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists","8":"category-designer","9":"category-tech","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-us"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/robotarms.png?fit=532%2C395&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-1po","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}