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Joey Hudy: From High School Kid to Celebrity Maker to Intel Intern (Video)
Timothy Lord met Joey Hudy at an Intel Dev Forum. Joey is possibly the youngest intern Intel has ever hired, but he's made a big splash in the 'Maker world', so having him around is probably worth it for the PR value alone. Joey is obviously pretty bright -- he's been called one of the 10 smartest kids in the world -- but let's face it: he's had a lot of luck to help him along. Not many high school kids get invited to White House science fairs and demonstrate their air cannons to the president. (Alternate Video Link)
Jesus did I miss out or what? Born way too early. What these people call "makers" I just call a regular childhood. I grew up at a time where you could pick up children's books that explained how to electrolyze water by taking apart carbon-zinc D cells for the electrodes and upside-down Evian bottles to catch the gases.
I also built scale model rockets out of construction paper mimicking the rockets I saw in books. I built basic electrical circuits from older books but got stumped by the French books calling for weird things like "tubes" and "selfs".
Made an "air cannon". Sweet shit. This is how the sytem is, the way it is. They pick someone relatively normal, go "you wanna be famous", then overexaggerate everything he does, just so they can tell the rest of us we are worthless.
Thats the "great man theory" in a nutshell.