Pete Bachant is a mechanical engineering PhD student at the University of New Hampshire who enjoys writing Python and uses the BeagleBone to interact with motion control and data acquisition hardware.

Hardik Vijaykumar Pandya is an electrical engineering graduate from TU Delft in the Netherlands. He's been working on open source hardware and software for the last 7 years and has conducted state-wide workshops on them in different universities across Gujarat, India.

His projects have been selected for display at the national level and his work on hobby electronics has been lauded by the mayor of Ahmedabad a number of times. His work on optical shape and motion recognition using the Microsoft Kinect camera also won the best and most innovative project of the year award at Nirma University.

Nowadays, he reviews books on subjects related to electronics and manages his own business in the same domain. He does a lot of public speaking on the topics of getting started with electronics and entrepreneurship. He also writes articles at http://hardik.org and shares his views on Twitter. His Twitter handle is @hvpandya.

He can be reached for questions and queries at <[email protected]>.