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Tod E Kurt

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Tod's personal page for crashspace.

"todbot" is my username here and my general nom de Net elsewhere.

Bio for publication purposes:

Tod E. Kurt is co-founder of ThingM, a ubiquitous computing device studio based in San Francisco and Pasadena and is creator of BlinkM, the popular Smart LED prototyping device. Tod is a contributor to MAKE magazine, the author of "Hacking Roomba", an active member in the Arduino community, and co-founder of the Los Angeles hackerspace Crash Space. His past work includes being the original systems architect of GoTo.com, the first public pay-per-click search engine, and a researcher in Yahoo Research Lab. Before that, Tod was a hardware, software, and firmware engineer working on robotic camera systems that went to Mars.

More casual bio:

I'm based out of Pasadena. I'm a Electrical Engineer by training (went to Caltech) but have done lots of web engineering during the start of the web. For a bit I also worked on the firmware and hardware for space cameras that went to Mars.

Now I'm doing lots of various hacking things.

My company ThingM (http://thingm.com/) is a ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) design studio. We do ubicomp research and are planning on releasing commercial retail products. ThingM also produces a few hacker tools: BlinkM, BlinkM MaxM, and the "Wiichuck adapter" (http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/18/wiichuck-wii-nunchuck-adapter-available/)

I'm also part of WingShield Industries (http://wingshieldindustries.com/), makers of the ScrewShield for Arduino, with John Park and Brian Jepson of Make Magazine. I've written a few articles for Make Magazine, the most recent of which was the Servomotor Primer in Make #19 (http://makezine.com/19/primer/)

I also wrote a book called Hacking Roomba (http://hackingroomba.com/). If you recall seeing a Roomba hack in 2006-7, it was probably mine.

Arduino is a big favorite of mine. In 2006-7 I taught a series of Arduino classes at Machine Project that seemed pretty successful: Spooky Arduino (http://todbot.com/blog/spookyarduino/) and Bionic Arduino (http://todbot.com/blog/bionicarduino/)

In the last year or so I've been working with local artists, discovering ways of melding technology into art. A recent example of this is the "Crystal Monster" I worked on with Beverly Tang (http://sublimina.com/work/crystal-monster).

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