An Interview with Bunnie Huang (2nd)

Welcome back, Bunnie!

• Bunnie was on Embedded.fm about a year ago talking about projects.
• Since then he has been working on/with:
  • Edward Snowden on iPhone detection / Media Lab forbidden research
  • Suing the US gov't with the EFF over Section 1201 of the DMCA
  • Working on Chibitronics and making electronics more inclusive. Bunnie talked about this more on Ask an engineer (as well as a bunch of other things!)
• Bunnie has released two books in the past two years
  • Essential guide to electronics in Shenzhen.
  • The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
• Bunnie recommend working with CrowdSupply. We had Josh on the show on ep 314.
• He also liked working with professional book publishers at No Starch Press.
• There is biology stuff at the end of the book!
• Bunnie also recently talked about "hardware as a cat meme" on the Hackaday hack chat
• On a similar note, he has written about the Gongkai cell phone culture in China in the past on his blog.
• This is also the case for how "hoverboard" came into being. He talked about this in an NPR interview.
• "Childhood as a service"
• Bunnie regularly works with:
  • Sean "Xobs" Cross - Novena
  • Jie Qi - Chibitronics
  • His hardware team in China
• Bunnie had a project he decided to dump a year ago, an encrypted keyboard. This was meant to be more secure than "Dirty Dirty Dirty Mobile Phones"
• Lately Bunnie has been working with the Kinetis chipset.
• This was first prototyped on the Orchard Badge, which used the KL02.
• A listener asked about this Dangerous Prototype's interview with Bunnie where he talked about the availability if schematics.
• "My life is a series of PhDs"
• Bunnie is now learning how to code in Rust.
• You can find Bunnie online at his blog: bunniestudios.com, or on twitter under @bunniestudios
• His business sites are Kosagi.com and chibitronics.com

We can't wait to hear what Bunnie is up to next!