Mission: To inspire, train, and connect the next generation of collaborative problem solvers to design and implement effective solutions for social impact around the world.
Help us build a Community Innovation Center in Austin, TX
Elevator Pitch
“ Tiny Hacker House empowers remote tech professionals to thrive in collaborative environments by delivering curated co-living spaces. Our casual yet tech-driven approach equips digital nomads with the tools they need to innovate and connect. With Tiny Hacker House, professionals can focus on what truly matters: building the future.”
Tiny Hacker House is raising funds to create a space for artists, designers, and makers to come together and solve social impact issues.
Launched in 2010 as a community incubator, TinyHackerHouse is an advocacy campaign to address homelessness, affordable housing and gentrification through grassroots community driven entrepreneurship, sustainability and innovation.
We are building a futurist live/work event space in Austin, TX.
We will host Hackathons and Makerfaires to support our community of creative artists collaborating on ideas that change the world.
We will provide access to $300,000 in free cash prizes, mentors, resources and a network of 200,000 of the most diverse talented experts.
CAMPAIGN
Excited to partner with #ADW19 for my 4th year hosting the TinyHackerHouse Design Challenge 4.0
On 22nd February 2019 HackStarz launches project @TinyHackerHouse #Design #Challenge 3,0 a creative workshop to explore the future of work, life and space in the future.
TinyHackerHouse presents TinyDomeHomes @TinyHouseJamboree #Austin #2018
It’s official, we married 3 movements at this years Tinyhousejamboree event 2018, the revolution has begun.
Had a blast this weekend at #AustinMakerfaire revisiting conversations with #Hackers #Makers all over #Texas about #TinyHackerHouse campaign.
I recently co-hosted a #designthinking workshop with the Speculative Futures Meetup outlining my plans in ‘Campaigning for a sustainable future’ through the lens of the 17 UN Global Sustainability Goals in Austin, TX.
Building a 3dprinter is no easy task and building a 10ft 3dprinter is even more difficult. But now that we've built it, the question is, what large project ideas do you want to 3dprint?
One of the challenges with integrating IoT devices into a future tinyhouse is getting different technology products to talk to each other. This IoT lab will be used for our hackathon to create cool hack projects. What ideas would you like to develop? Add your comments below..
EVENTS
TinyHackerHouse campaign was born out of necessity during the 2008 recession. Today we’re celebrating 12 years of community driven grassroots social innovation through art, creativity and design automation by launching a livestream of our campaign video during NASA / SpaceX launch.
EarthxHack is a virtual hackathon designed to inspire you to use your creativity, technical thinking, and knowledge to solve real issues affecting the world today.
Living Future 2020 is the forum for leading minds in the green building movement seeking solutions to the most daunting global issues of our time. This year’s conference theme is “Sustaining Hope Within Crisis,” a theme now more relevant than ever.
#SXSW2020 Creatives, Startup Entrepreneurs, meet Hackers, Makers, Hustlers Fun Pool Mixer
TinyHackerHouse partners with #F50Summit to expand Investor network and support Entrepreneurs
As part of my fundraising strategy #SXSW #2019 i’m transporting conference speakers, corporate executives and attendees to events in downtown Austin where each ride fare will be donated to the TinyHackerHouse campaign.
PORTFOLIO
Launching a new startup online platform to support Hackers, Makers, and Creative Entrepreneurs during EarthxHack2020 Earthmonth Lockdown.
A Race To Success took place on June 19, 2014 in Irvine, CA.
Elance partnered with Southern California's fastest growing angel investor organization, Private Capital Network (PCN), UPS and SendGrid to bring a fast-paced and fun-filled A Race To Success.
It's where ten lucky startups were invited to K1 Speed, where they raced go-karts alongside prominent angel investors and reps from OC incubators, accelerators & co-working spaces. The winning startup got to pitch to influential PCN members, win $1000 of Elance credits and ultimate bragging rights!
Click Here to see the video.
In June 2016 Silicon Labs invited me to a secret workshop to learn about their new IoT Dev board. It was amazing to see so many sensors squeezed into such a small board with so much functionality.
My first hack was to communicate with the sensors and eventually I was able to use the Ambient Light sensor to display different LED colors. To see the video click here.
I connected Google Analytics to different social media pages to do some A/B Testing and better understand which platforms drive more traffic and where it is coming from. Some interesting add-ons include SEO, SEM, Adwords and it's affect on search.
2010 Google Hackathon San Francisco Designing a game to help kids with Diabetes keep track of their insulin levels. #Media
Information here can be ordered and categorized through data flows and later visualized. I often like to start breaking problems down through a brainstorm followed by mapping. This data can later be imported into IBM's SAS / SPSS software and coded in R to provide meaningful business analytical visuals for to better understand value at a glimpse.
Question. Green. Innovate. Technology Science.
In 2012 Co-founded QGITS.org a startup under OCHackerz incubator and became a journalist reporting on the Hacker / Maker movement in the local community. Raising awareness of advancements in:
Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM)
Science Technology Engineering Art and Math (STEAM)
In 2014 we independently produced the first OC Hackerz #OpenHack Hardware Hackathon. We engaged the community in collaborative team building exercises, learned about new hardware technologies, brainstormed ideas through pitches and used Agile/Scrum principles to work within teams. Click to watch Video
This is a StopMotion Animated video produced using the Vine App. We dissected an orange and paper logo cutouts into multiple layers and took short video clips animating them through a sequence to create a short video to create awareness through the vine social media community.
With everything going mobile, I decided to research platforms, devices, technologies, architectures and start my own mobile app design agency. Excited to polish up on some of my Photoshop design skills. I had fun creating the WirelessApps brand, logo, branding and threw a QR code in to make it interactive whilst doing some user research.
I also enjoyed designing the OC Hackerz logo and experimenting with different copywriting approaches to simplify awareness.
Bringing back the Bartering System with www.Trade-off.co. Small Business with limited budgets can now exchange services with other local businesses in the area to provide value and build community.
My role on our 4 person team was to create a simple explainer video to help communicate our project to a larger audience and can also be used for marketing a future campaign.
This was my first time working with illustrators and writing a script to produce this video working under extreme time constraints.
Super excited to be spearheading Austin in the 2016 Hackaday Prize - $300,000 Cash prizes, 5 month campaign, 64 countries, 1000+ projects. Building technologies that change the world.
Since 2010 My team and I have produced and co-organized 5 minimakerfaires throughout the years. We plan to invite our community to produce a Makerfaire event each year to showcase our projects.
In 2014, My friends and I at RVSherpa hosted an RV camping experience during SXSW to connect festival goers, musicians and artists unable to find accommodation. We barbecued, shared stories and a seven year old girl sang one of her favorite songs.
We decided to do a Thanksgiving themed hackathon and decided to name it Hacksgiving. The goal was to come up with an project idea to help the homeless feel connected to society again.
In 12 hours we designed and launched a website where donations raised provided a gourmet meal for the homeless.
Through the introduction of Open Source Hardware, my team and I hosted the first Hardware Hackathon in the local community.
This was one of my most challenging project management accomplishments to date, managing attendees, volunteers, logistics, teams, whilst working on a hardware project #realtime #live
The intensive marketing campaign paid off and we had a lot of fun.
Our organization was featured in the front page of the OC Register local media in recognition for our work providing opportunities in the local community.
Our community and events would not have been possible without building sponsorships and partnerships with local organizations. These are some of the early organizations that supported us.
There are some of the community networks I've built on Meetup and organized events.
I once entered a local pool tournament for $1, I beat 5 players that were better than me and ended up winning a $100 pool cue.
I think there's something really interesting about the behavioral interaction between 2 pool players, so I built a community to find out.
This is Startupbus SF 2014. 8 buses from Mexico, South, Mid West, West Coast, South East, North, North East, America travel 3,000km to build a startup on a bus and launch in San Antonio, TX. Special thanks to my company Elance who sponsored my seat on the bus. I added so many respected entrepreneurs to my network including Robert Scoble, Guy Kawasaki and others.
In 3 days. My team and I launched www.Trade-Off.co
One of my challenges at Stanford was to connect with a celebrity, I reached out to Ashton Kutcher and we even organized a Music Hackathon at his space in LA.
On October 23-25th 2015, my friends and I worked together to produce HackingEDU the largest Educational Hackathon event in San Mateo, CA. Students across the nation travelled to San Mateo,CA for a weekend of Hacking to build software and hardware projects to advance education.
#HackForLA - A Civic Hackathon event allowing citizens to collaborate on technology projects that can solve problems in the local community.
This weekend I won first place for designing a geolocation based mobile app that allows non-profits to connect to volunteers through SMS messaging.
During my time volunteering at Boys and Girls club, I worked with numerous underserved kids and also held a couple of workshops educating youth on design thinking, mobile application design, wireframing, prototyping and robotics.
A proximity sensing robot using Arduino compatible board.
A Wearable Watch designed using Solidworks and a 3d printer for prototype.
I worked with two 12 year old hackers on an BioMetric Access Control panel with a touchscreen LCD for commercial buildings.
The winning prize was a coffee bean scale which measures the right amount of coffee for industrial automation.
It was exciting to put some of my Agile / Scrum team management principles into practice to manage multiple teams while simultaneously working on a project and coordinating the event.
At my first Startup Weekend event, I designed an emergency response app and worked with my team of developers to demo our prototype. It allowed any user to report their GPS location and alert family members at the touch of a button.
I decided to call it 912 Alerts. Because it's 1 step ahead of 911 given that we provide 2 critical pieces of information requested whenever someone reports an emergency.
A 3D model to house the SiliconLabs Pulse Sensor designed for the wrist.
SiLabs launched the BTLE sensor puck v2.0, I used it to prototype a music recommendation engine based on your heart-rate using Spotify API.
When your heartrate is high, it recommends upbeat music, when it's low, it recommends calm soothing music and visa versa.
100+ Students gathered together to collaborate on Hack projects exploring Virtual Reality and Hardware Technologies.
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