Interview with chumby's former VP of Hardware

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.

http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Xbox-Introduction-Reverse-Engi...

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.

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2328

What a great, detailed interview. I have a ton of respect for Bunnie. His work on Chumby is miles beyond some of the other "open" projects like Raspberry Pi.

His take on Kickstarter is wonderfully honest and refreshing as well:

"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."

Shameless plug: see Bunnie (from this article) and other hardware startup guys at MAKE's Hardware Innovation Workshop

http://makezine.com/hardware-innovation-workshop/

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.

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.