About the Technical Reviewers

Nathan Seidle is the founder of SparkFun Electronics based in Boulder, Colorado. When he's not building large blinky things for BurningMan, Nathan designs development tools to enable users to build their wild imaginations.

Andy Gelme is a distributed systems designer, currently working for Geekscape in Melbourne, Australia. Throughout his career, he has enjoyed playing at the extremes of the computing landscape, from networks of embedded microprocessors to supercomputers. His current focus is on software and hardware development based around the Internet of Things, in particular the Aiko platform. He is also a co-founder of the Connected Community HackerSpace (Melbourne).

Thomas Sprinkmeier graduated from the University of South Australia in 1992 with a degree in electronics engineering. It was there that he was seduced by PCs early in his first year. He was intrigued by "free as in beer" about a decade ago, and subverted by "free as in speech" soon after. Thomas is a recovering sysadmin.

Trent Lloyd lives in Perth, Australia, and works as MySQL Technical Support Engineer for Sun Microsystems. He is also the director and lead developer for Web in a Box. In addition, he is co-author of the Avahi project, an amateur poker player, and a Star Trek fan.

Scott Penrose is a full-time developer in Linux. He is the principal architect at myinternet Limited and the owner of Digital Dimensions. He lives with his wife Amanda and his beautiful daughter Teha in Melbourne, Australia.

Marc Alexander is an embedded electronics engineer, programmer, and gadget-head. He has worked on projects from the Apple Newton as well as another favorite area—real-time control and engine-management systems, including the Wolf3D and Bike Interceptor. Alexander does automotive and consumer electronics design and loves devices that "just work," hiding the thorough development underneath.

Philip Lindsay has a particular interest in the intersection of software, hardware, craft, and art. He has integrated network and USB technologies into the Arduino ecosystem. Occasionally, he can be heard mumbling how a prominent industry figure once called him a "troublemaker" for his Google Maps reverse engineering.