STEM Education, Gaming & Micro Electronics | Pioneers in Open Source

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The Arduboy is a handheld game console with open source software, based on the Arduino hardware platform. In this episode of Pioneers in Open Source, Jay speaks with the creator of the Arduboy, Kevin Bates about his game console. They chat about how he developed it, his background and how open source played a role in his development. -------------------------------------------------- LEARN MORE Kevin's Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bateske/arduboy-mini/ Arduboy: https://www.arduboy.com/ -------------------------------------------------- TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:24 What is the Arduboy 01:30 The Arduboy's thriving Community 02:56 Experiments thad led to the ARduboy 08:13 How Arduboy evolves STEM education0 9:47 How Kevin used Open Source to learn Micro Electronics 11:13 Kevin's Origin Story 14:02 The Making of the Arduboy 17:52 The Story behind the Kickstarter campaign 21:07 Has Kevin done filmwork before? 22:13 The Arduboy goes viral 24:23 Arduboy helping people learn low-level programming 27:47 Kevin's father as his mentor 28:33 Community as part of Arduboy's success story 31:04 Community creations exceed Kevin's expectations 33:48 The Arduboy community as a global phenomenon 41:29 Challenges to sustaining the Arduboy Community 44:34 Full game soundtracks for Arduboy software 46:38 The Arduboy Mini Kickstarter launch 49:11 Arduboy Mini's extensibility 50:41 Meeting the Kickstarter goal in less than 1 day 52:29 Why is the original Arduboy out of stock often? 53:56 Arduboy almost making it to Target shelves 58:51 What makes the Arduboy so popular 7 years later? 1:00:21 What aspects of the Arduboy brings Kevin pride? 1:01:25 What advice would Kevin give to his younger self? 1:03:31 A preview of the new device Kevin's working on 1:06:57 Arduboy evolving into a brand from a product 1:08:19 Closing remarks -------------------------------------------------- 📽 Subscribe to get the latest insights from our global team of technologists, designers, and strategists: http://mdus.co/subscribe 📝 Check out our blog for tips, tutorials, and opinions on application development, customer experience, product management, and more: https://moduscreate.com/blog 💻 Modus Create builds customer-centric products, processes, and platforms to help businesses succeed in the digital economy. 🌐 For over 10 years, our global team of strategists, designers, and technologists have helped the world’s biggest brands such as Burger King, Kaplan, AARP, PBS, and Time Inc. deliver powerful digital experiences to their clients. We work in an iterative, outcome-driven way to support our clients with product strategy, customer experience (CX), full-stack Agile software development, and security. 📈 Inc Magazine has rated Modus Create as one of the fastest-growing American companies for seven years in a row. Our distributed team of Modites have been pioneers in the open-source community, creating innovations such as the Ionic-Vue integration, RoboDomo, Beep, and Capsule. Visit moduscreate.com to learn more.