Hardware Hacker

Andrew "bunnie" Huang is a hacker, maker, and open hardware activist. He holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from MIT, is the author of Hacking the Xbox (No Starch Press) and The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen, and has served as a technical advisor for various hardware startups and MAKE Magazine.

“Hardware, says Bunnie Huang, is a world without secrets: if you go deep enough, even the most important key is expressed in silicon or fuses. His is a world without mysteries, only unexplored spaces. This is a look inside a mind without peer.”—Edward Snowden  “A tour-de-force that combines the many genius careers of one of the world’s great hacker-communicators: practical, theoretical, philosophical and often mind-blowing. Huang isn’t just explaining how to make things, he’s peeling back the roofs of factories, the surfaces of microcontrollers, and even the human genome. The secret workings of our world are laid bare and the levers by which they may be moved are put in the reader’s hands.”—Cory Doctorow, Author of Little Brother and technology activist  “bunnie lives in the world of hardware where the solder meets the PCB. He has more practical experience and is a better teacher of how the ecosystem of hardware works than any other person I’ve ever met, and I know a lot of people in this space. He has rendered this experience and expertise into an amazing book—a hacker’s-point-of-view-bible to anyone trying to work in or understand and work in the emerging and evolving world of hardware.”—Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

• PART 1: Adventures in ManufacturingChapter 1: Made in ChinaChapter 2: Inside Three Very Different FactoriesChapter 3: The Factory FloorPART 2: Thkinking Differently: Intellectual Property in ChinaChapter 4: Gongkai InnovationChapter 5: Fake GoodsPART 3: What Open Hardware Means to MeChapter 6: The Story of ChumbyChapter 7: Novena: Building My Own LaptopChapter 8: Chibitronics: Creating Circuit StickersPART 4: A Hacker's PerspectiveChapter 9: Hardware HackingChapter 10: Biology and BioinformaticsChapter 11: Selected InterviewsEpilogueAfterword