Andrew (bunnie) Huang is also the first person to hack the original Microsoft XBox. He wrote a book about it and it's a great read for software hackers wondering how a knowledgable person would go about hacking hardware.<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Xbox-Introduction-Reverse-Engineering/dp/B002YX0EN4" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Xbox-Introduction-Reverse-Engi...</a><p>He also has a pretty cool blog, although it's not always updated on time, he hosts a monthly contest called "Name That Ware" where he posts close-up pics of a circuit board (or chip xray) and people guess what it is.<p><a href="http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2328" rel="nofollow">http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2328</a>
What a great, detailed interview. I have a <i>ton</i> of respect for Bunnie. His work on Chumby is miles beyond some of the other "open" projects like Raspberry Pi.<p>His take on Kickstarter is wonderfully honest and refreshing as well:<p><i>"Customers are sold on a vision, buy-in early on, and you have to deliver on that vision; in crowdsourcing your money, you’ve also crowdsourced your board of directors."</i>
Shameless plug: see Bunnie (from this article) and other hardware startup guys at MAKE's Hardware Innovation Workshop<p><a href="http://makezine.com/hardware-innovation-workshop/" rel="nofollow">http://makezine.com/hardware-innovation-workshop/</a>
Nice find! I was thinking today how I'd really enjoy reading some postmortems on Chumby. (My big regret is not having bunnie autography the Chumby he gave me as a "Name That Ware" prize.)
Maybe bunnie is interested in going to work for Per Vices. Those guys seem set on demolishing the world with their one-wireless-chipset-rules-them-all approach.<p>Would be an awesome combination, especially given his previous learning experience at Chumby and his new open-source hardware platform that he's working on.