The Long Tail of Gadgets - How Open Source Hardware is Enabling Bottom Up Innovation in Electronics
Peter Semmelhack of Bug Labs
Tuesday, January 20, 12:45 pm (Please note a later start time due to the inauguration)
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:45 pm ET.
Open source software has collapsed the cost of innovation in the digital world. Now open source hardware IP promises to do the same in the physical world of electronics. Bug Labs' product BUG will be demonstrated as an example of this emerging trend.
About Peter
Peter Semmelhack is the founder and CEO of Bug Labs, the company behind BUG, a programmable, open source and modular consumer electronics and web services platform. Previously, Peter was the founder and CTO of Antenna Software, a leading mobile enterprise software vendor. Following a 20 year career in software, Peter founded Bug Labs on the belief that users and communities should have the power to create and share devices in the same way they create and share digital content.