April 2008 Meeting Archive
Date and Time
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Wednesday, April 2, 7:00PM Pacific |
Location
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Carnegie Mellon University West Coast (directions https://west.cmu.edu/who_we_are/visitor) |
Title
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A Hacker's Dissection of the Pleo Robot |
Speaker
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Kyle Wiens, Founder of iFixit |
Abstract
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Pleo is Ugobe's robotic dinosaur designed to emulate the appearance and behavior of a week-old baby dinosaur. This talk will present a hacker's view into Pleo's innovative and intricate guts. |
Biography
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Kyle Wiens founded iFixit, a do-it-yourself Mac and iPod repair company. iFixit is dedicated to helping people everywhere keep their Macs, iPods, and iPhones running longer. He co-authored the Fixit Guide series of step-by-step repair manuals for Apple hardware. Kyle has a degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly and tinkers with robots in his spare time. |
