Phillip Torrone

Phillip Torrone
Senior Editor, Maker Media

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Phillip Torrone is an author, artist and hardware tinkerer and is senior editor of MAKE. Phillip has authored and contributed to numerous books on programming, mobile devices, design, multimedia, hardware hacking and is a contributing editor for Popular Science. Phillip also co-produces the MAKE audio and video content on the Makezine.com site. In his spare time he helps design open source electronics. Prior to MAKE, Phillip was director of Product Development for creative firm Fallon Worldwide, best known for their award-winning film series.

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10:05am Tuesday, 11/17/2009
Open Source Hardware and The Web
Fundamentals
 Location: 1A24
Phillip Torrone (Maker Media), Limor Fried (Adafruit Industries)
Open source hardware is a term slowly working its way into many new projects and efforts, but what is it? There are a few definitions, some of which come from “open source software". Because of the openness of the movement it is increasingly being tied to Web 2.0 services. Read more.
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