Speaker - Felipe Tavares

Felipe is a digital hardware hobbyist, turned software guy, turned person who keeps a CNC machine in their shed.

He started out as a kid messing around with TTL logic circuits and diode bridges in a farm, circa 2009. Upon realizing everything about hardware was expensive, he made the conscious decision to instead study software and computer science. He first worked in open source software for weather stations (as part of a little known Brazilian group called CCSL-IFRN).

He then had stints in freelance web software development, machine learning, fault analysis, cryptography and is now working developing test methodologies and software for testing novel Wi-Fi HaLow systems.

In 2024 he was bit again by the hardware bug, now with some funds to spend he instantly fell through the deep deep hole of open hardware and is working on his open source/open hardware dream calculator.