The Hackerspace Movement: Mitch Altman at TEDxBrussels
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- Mitch Altman has been putting together electronic hardware in his own unique style for nearly thirty years. He was an early virtual reality pioneer at VPL with Jaron Lanier and one of the very first Silicon Valley start-up founders, establishing RAID controller company 3Ware in 1997. Altman's latest role has been as a founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge, where he helps people learn how to solder and program microcontrollers. Altman was a leading light of Maker Faire and Make magazine, designing their most popular kit, Trip Glasses, parting ways with them earlier this year in protest at their acceptance of a DARPA grant. (He also left VPL when the company started winning military contracts). His coolest invention is the TV-B-Gone, a one button remote control for shutting off TVs in public places.
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This is the kind of super-simple concept that I truly adore. Mr. Mitch Altman, you have the joyous personality that makes me smile and that makes me know I am correct in my conclusion that the human race has a good amount of time yet in this universe.
I claim the title of "incorrigible optimist," just as Robert Anton Wilson did in his own words.
Creativity in an open and supportive environment wins the race. It has been so for millennia past. It will be so for eons onward.
Like the lights in the darkness that the members of DEVO were and still are, I say, "March on!"
I met him at a hackerspace and he's such an approachable guy and a fab instructor.
In total agreement with this inspiring man as a member from HackManhattan in New York City. Intellectual creativity in an encouraging community environment has been what I've been searching for my entire life, a community of inventers, a family of tinkerers. Absolutely love this tedTalk, I'm glad this came up on my recommendations. Sending love from one hackerspace member to another! :)
Good god, this has to be my favorite Tedx Talk. It was so endearing to see him start out so damn incredibly nervous and as soon as he started talking about the projects made by hackerspaces he just lit up! I love it
"Learn from your messes and successes..." Mitch, of course you have your own TEDx Talk. Much Love!!!
at 6:17 Mitch Altman describes the idea of starting a hackerspace: "We could have this kind of energy all day, all night, all year long, at a hackspace in my hometown..." If this isn't happening in your town right now, you need to watch this again, take notes and get started! I just joined one in Central Florida called FamiLAB, and it is exactly like what is described here. The tools are amazing, but the people in the community are by far the the greatest assets.
Great. Great talk my friend. Thank you.
Two keys to hackerspaces: community and creative self-expression. Learn, build, share.
Cool
I knew that any project that Mitch involved himself in would be amazingly..(pick any superlative that comes to you). This just reinforces the live I have for Mitch & his energy. Love you Mitch.. . Chris R.
Infectious indeed. I'm smitten
Community, creative expression, AND capital equipment
Such a wonderful man
Your video was a huge inspiration to create the hackerspace „machquadrat“ in Gleisdorf (Austria). We have 20 members and are a part in our local clutural community. Yesterday we had our first anniversary and we keep growing :)
This guy (Mitch so it seems) is awesome and the entire concept is exhilarating. He reminds me Rick from Rick and Morty. If someone who is reading this is interested in learning more, look up "fab labs" it's kind of similar, set up by MIT. They've got a ted talks on it.
Mitch is talking about HackerSpaceBrussels (HSB) around 8:31
Great talk Mitch, inspirational, keep up the great work!
Very inspiring! Thank you :)
met mitch today in StgoMakerSpace in Chile, amazing guy :), now i have one of those keys :D
Brilliant
Wow, which city you in bro. Would love to check it out
Hey I want to add Subtitles (spanish) but you disabled the option for community contributions.
Thank you
Mitch seems like a great guy. Nice hair too bro.
so at hackerspaces can you build your inventions? :D I have loads of amazing concepts in my mind but I don't yet have the tools to make them.
one thing i struggle with in sharing resources or ideas and methods is that i like the feeling of being special i.e. the only one that can do one particular thing "being unique"
MXStar189 then is Mr. Higgs not unique?? he did not have billions to spend on proving his idea, but sharing it made others who love his idea attempt to realize it and so the LHC that cost 10+ billions where created.
Your struggle is more or less the idea of becoming filthy rich and stand on top of the hill looking down on others, NOT to be unique.
Met Mitch last weekend. great guy.
Newcastle, UK has it's own Hackerpsace
makerpsace . org . uk
look us up if you're in the area
He's excited, but no one in the crowd is! Gaaah!
I've visited several makerspaces, some big, some small. Most small. Most never amount to much. That's because this kind of organization is inefficient. It's only in places that have ample available resources (including human availability) that these things can grow to any size. That's my theory, anyway, based on my observations over the last few years. It would be interesting to make a more detailed study of a larger sample set.
I actually was a member of a large makerspace, one of the largest centralized, brick-and-mortar makerspaces in the world. It has about 1000 members. I don't believe that any of them are ever going to do anything that amounts to much. Of course, that's subjective. If you think that shutting off people's TVs when you walk past is great, then you have a different definition of greatness than I do. Launching a balloon twenty miles up is cool, but the idea that these folks are going to put a man in space, much less safely on Moon, is absurd. That's because these are a bunch of hippies doing artsy-crafty sorts of projects of trivial significance and, more importantly, they simply lack the skills or resources to meet critically-demanding application needs. I have never seen anything come from a makerspace that I would want to entrust with my life. In fact, most makerspace products are best kept well-away from anyone who wants to live with all their appendages intact.
This talk just continues the precedent that TEDx talks are useless drivel.
I love shutting off people's TVs. It is very entertaining. Until you've known the joy of shutting down every single tv in a Walmart, you will remain a curmudgeon, which it seems is your specialty.
SONOFABITCH I'm sure the Walmart clerks would consider you as nothing better than a lateral move from me.
mitch rul3Z
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definitely not a normal spectrum personality
There is no movement. What are you talking about?
Smart people don’t care about each other. There is no community.
I would have thought you would know how ridiculous Ted-talks are.
Nobody cares about doing anything anymore. That includes geeks.