12 Facts About Mitch Altman

Mitch Altman was born on December 22,1956 and is a Berlin-based hacker and inventor of TV-B-Gone.

Mitch Altman is a featured speaker at hacker conferences, an international expert on the hackerspace movement, and teaches introductory electronics workshops.

Mitch Altman is Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.

Mitch Altman moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1986 to work in Silicon Valley.

Mitch Altman was an early developer of virtual reality technologies, working at VPL Research with Jaron Lanier.

Mitch Altman left VPL Research in protest when it accepted contracts with the United States Department of Defense.

In 2004 Mitch Altman released a one-button universal remote control called TV-B-Gone, to be used for turning off TVs in public places.

Mitch Altman used money from the sale of 3ware to pay for the manufacture of the first 20,000 units of TV-B-Gone.

TV-B-Gone is in its 4th generation, and Mitch Altman developed a new product called the TV-B-Gone SHP.

Mitch Altman is an important figure in the international "hackerspace" and "maker" movements.

Since then, Mitch Altman has traveled extensively, encouraging the formation of hackerspaces, holding panels and workshops on depression, teaching introductory electronics workshops to people of all ages and visiting electronics enthusiast groups around the world.

In September 2018, Mitch Altman announced that he had left Noisebridge.