创客列传之米奇传

Mitch Altman (born December 22, 1956) is a San Francisco-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as a featured speaker at hacker conferences, as an international expert on the hackerspace movement, and for teaching introductory electronics workshops. He is also Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.
奥特曼氏米奇其人，丙申年冬至生，旧金山一能工巧匠，粟地电子首脑也。畅言于黑客讲坛，牛耳于万国创客空间动向，授其电工技艺予世人。其为世人称道之作，曰电视退散神器。

Early life and education[edit]
Altman grew up in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois. After kindergarten his family moved to Highland Park, Illinois. Altman graduated from Deerfield High School (Illinois) in 1975. Altman is an alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he earned an undergraduate degree (1980) and a master's degree (1984) in electrical engineering. While at the University of Illinois, Altman co-organized the first Hash Wednesday in Champaign-Urbana in 1977.[1][2] Altman moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1986 to work in Silicon Valley.
奥特曼氏生于美利坚合众国伊利诺伊州芝加哥市罗杰斯庄。幼塾后，举家迁往同州之高地庄。乙卯年卒业于鹿野高中。系出伊利诺伊大学，庚申年肄业，甲子年获电气工程硕士。

VPL Research, 3ware, Cornfield Electronics, Maker Faire[edit]
Altman was an early developer of Virtual Reality technologies, working at VPL Research with Jaron Lanier.[3] Altman left VPL Research in protest when it accepted contracts with the United States Department of Defense.[4]
奥特曼乃早期虚拟实境幻术先驱，与兰尼亚氏贾隆于VPL院共事。VPL院与美国防部有通，其愤而离之。

Altman co-founded Silicon Valley start-up 3ware in February 1997 with J. Peter Herz and Jim MacDonald (who is on the advisory board of Cornfield Electronics).[5]
丁丑正月，彼会同J.彼得赫尔兹、麦当劳氏吉姆共创硅谷初创企业3ware。（麦当劳氏现为粟地电子董事顾问。）

Altman started Cornfield Electronics as a consulting company. After the launch of TV-B-Gone Altman gave the company the tagline "We make Useful Electronics for a Better World".[6]）
奥特曼氏以粟地电子为顾问公司。电视退散神器面世后，奥特曼氏书“吾辈以有能电子求乐世”为其铭。

Following extensive involvement in the "Maker" movement and Make magazine, including being featured in a Make magazine April Fool's Day prank,[7] Altman publicly parted ways with the Maker Faire in 2012 after the Maker Faire accepted contracts with the United States Department of Defense.[8]
后，入创客运动大流，为创造志幕宾。其愚人节恶戏，为创造志所收录。奈何其后壬辰年创客汇与美国防部有通，彼与创造志分道扬镳。

TV-B-Gone[edit]
电视退散神器一事

Main article: TV-B-Gone
In 2004 Altman released a one-button universal remote control called TV-B-Gone, to be used for turning off TVs in public places.[5][9] Altman used money from the sale of 3ware to pay for the manufacture of the first 20,000 units of TV-B-Gone.[10] By February of 2014, he was reported to have sold more than 500,000 units.[11] He is currently selling the TV-B-Gone generation 4. He also invented a new product called the TV-B-Gone SHP (Super High Power).
甲申年，奥特曼氏之单键通用电视遥控器问世，曰电视退散神器。彼以此息电视于市。沽3ware所得财货，以造两万神器。至甲午年zhengyue正月，以卖逾五十万神器矣。现其四代神器已于市，亦有高能电视退散神器传于世。

Other activities[edit]
其他事迹

Altman at a workshop at HackerspaceSG in Singapore
Mitch Altman is an important figure in the international "hackerspace" and "maker" movements. While attending the 2007 Berlin Chaos Communication Camp, Altman and Jacob Appelbaum began discussing the idea of a San Francisco hackerspace, at which time there were no hackerspaces in the United States.[12] In October 2008 he co-founded Noisebridge,[13][14] which was probably the third hackerspace formed in the US.[15] Since then, Altman has traveled extensively, encouraging the formation of hackerspaces, holding panels and workshops on depression,[16][17] teaching introductory electronics workshops to people of all ages and visiting electronics enthusiast groups around the world.[18][19] TedX Brussels invited Altman to give a Ted Talk the Hackerspace movement,[20] Make magazine has referred to Altman as "the Johnny Appleseed of hackerspaces",[21] and Altman, who has also written for the magazine, was awarded the first "Maker Hero" award -- named in his honor -- by Make Magazine on May 20, 2011.[22][23]
奥特曼氏米奇其人为世界创客空间与创客运动之马首。丁亥年，彼与苹果树氏雅各布会于柏林混沌通信营，设想建创客空间于三藩市。彼时，尚无创客空间立于美利坚。至次年戊子年九月，联合创聒噪桥空间，应为全美第三组建空间。其后，彼云游四方，促各地空间，闲时会友论坛，交流技艺，传入门电子技艺于老少，访天下电子痴者。布鲁塞尔TedX邀奥特曼氏传创客空间大道，创造志谓其“创客空间之播种人”。辛卯年四月十八，奥特曼氏以其载于创造志之文，获首“创客英雄”赏。