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About the Author
Tod E. Kurt has engineered the hardware and software for robotic camera systems that went to
Mars. He was a founding developer and systems architect of Overture Systems, originally
GoTo.com, later sold to Yahoo. Now as co-creator of ThingM.com, he’s designing sketchable
hardware and networked smart objects. He has degrees in electrical engineering from Caltech
and physics from Occidental College. He started robotics hacking at the age of twelve when he
took apart his BigTrak, RC car, and chemistry set to make an upright programmable robot.