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New Year Education

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Welcome back, Akiba of Freaklabs!

  • Akiba was on the show back in April of 2015.
  • Freaklabs is moving from a consultancy to a product company.
  • One product that came out this year was a rice farm monitoring sensor node system. Developed in conjunction with the University of Tokyo.
    • Uses single hop nodes with long range radios (couple kM)
    • One aggregator node uses 3G to upload data.
    • Software stack is Python flask
    • Another sensor network project lets farmers know when there are boar (an invasive species) are caught in traps.
    • Pigs in Space!
    • For prototyping, Akiba normally uses Dirty PCBs/Seeed for getting PCBs manufactured.
    • The Hackerfarm (located in Kamagowa) is still going strong!
    • Akiba and Chris are both very big on apprenticeship.
    • Chris has an issue when he was at the ECEDHA conference and company heads said they weren't interested in practical education.
    • Akiba's sister founded Hackermoms in Oakland. 
    • The rise of HWstartups gives Akiba hope. He and Bunnie give tours to students from the MIT media lab. 
    • They visited a mannequin factory. Creepy!
    • Quality factors in China require people on site to crack the whip. Akiba's gf had a low quality product delivered to her because the quoting company subcontracted to an unproven smaller print house.
    • Depression in technology can come from a lot of places. One of them is the seemingly endless treadmill of technology. 
    • In 2016, Akiba wants to create products that strike a chord with people. Not necessarily super technical products.
    • One example is an electronic, "Choose Your Own Adventure" children's book.
    • Imposter syndrome, Hero culture and Ego are things we all have to deal with in technology. 
    • "Nose to the grindstone, head to the stars" ~ The Roots, "Sacrifice"
      • Happy 2016! Thank you to everyone for supporting and listening to the show!
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