Sai Yamanoor is a mechatronics engineer working for a private start-up school in the San Francisco Bay Area where he builds devices that help students achieve their full potential. He completed his degree in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, and his undergraduate work in mechatronics at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India. His interests, deeply rooted in DIY and open soft ware and hardware cultures, include developing gadgets and apps that improve quality of life, Internet of Things, crowdfunding, education, and new technologies. In his spare time, he plays with various devices and architectures such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Galileo, Android devices, and others. Sai shares his adventures with mechatronics at the aptly named "Mechatronics Craze" blog at http://mechatronicscraze.wordpress.com/.
