Hi! I'm an open source hardware hacker, and an activist for digital rights and freedoms.

My work is primarily funded by the goodwill of the community, through donations, pledges and private contracts. Here are some of my community projects:

• NeTV2, an open source video platform which is a basis of the lawsuit against the US government to challenge section 1201 of the DMCA.
• Betrusted, an open source mobile communications device that aims to keep your private matters safe from advanced threats. It is designed for easy verification of correct construction and transparency.
• Xous, the Rust-based microkernel message passing OS that powers Betrusted.
• IRIS, or Infra-Red, in-situ inspection of silicon, a project to facilitate the non-destructive verification of silicon chips. IRIS has many components, including a custom microscope, image stitching software, and layout analysis software.

Some of my other current and past open source hardware projects include Chibitronics, Novena, Chumby, The Cubegarden, and the Safecast Geiger Counter Reference Design.

I'm also the author of The Hardware Hacker, Hacking the Xbox (now free to download), and The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen, and I occasionally post smaller essays on my blog.

If you want to put a face behind the code, you can see me talk about:

• My passion for open source
• Shenzhen’s electronics ecosystem
• Why protecting hardware is just as important as protecting software
• Random thoughts with Ladyada of Adafruit