The Maker Movement is a relatively new phenomenon in society, or is it? The desire to understand technology and create things is a drive that has existed in people since the first devices were built. We sit down with Electronic Design editors Andy Turudic and Cabe Atwell for a discussion about the Maker Movement, tinkerers, and engineering.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.