A true outside-the-box thinker, he knows where creativity lives and is willing to show it to you.
| Creativity Lives Here
An Interview with Jean Noel Lefebvre
Circuit Cellar Issue #323 June 2017
With the proliferation of affordable 'Net-connected technologies during the last decade, the nontechnical members of society have come to realize that electrical engineering is an exceedingly creative endeavor. Outside-the-box innovators like Jean Noel Lefebvre are literally reinventing how we interact with the world around us.
By Wisse Hettinga
Jean Noel Lefebvre is an electronics engineer with a strong interest in how people interact with electronic systems. A true outside-the-box thinker, Lefebvre started his company, Ootsidebox (www.ootsidebox.fr), in the middle of the YouFactory fab lab in Lyon, France. He knows where creativity lives and is willing to show it to you. Meet Jean Noel Lefebvre.
HETTINGA: Why do you have your office in the middle of the fab lab?
LEFEBVRE: The fab lab here is a wonderful place where people can come to do some 3-D printing, laser cutting, or to work with electronics. But perhaps more importantly, it is a place where you can meet other people, where you can learn new skills and find new ideas and inspiration.
HETTINGA: That is important for you-the interaction between technology and others?
LEFEBVRE: Yes, that has always been part of my projects. My first invention was the Ootside box. It was a touch application and it allowed you to control a computer or a system just by pointing or with gestures. We tried raising enough funds on Indigogo to continue developing it, but unfortunately, we did not reach our targets. After that, I decided to name my company after this project. Through this project, I also discovered the Arduino ecosystem and the enormously inspiring world of makers and fab labs. I always was interested in electronics, but when you are very young, you have no idea what you are doing and all my radios and sound equipment failed. That is what I learn here-how to help people, sometimes young people, understand how electronics works.
HETTINGA: And what do they need to learn?
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