Episode 1: Jayy Moss | Digi-Key Technical Content Creator

Welcome to The BOM! This week, Majenta is joined by the brilliant self-described “tinker” Jorvon "Jayy" Moss. Jayy is a self-taught maker from Compton and the Technical Content Creator at Digi-Key (one of our Hackaday Prize Sponsors). He works with robots, droids, and gadgets, and over the past few years has been exploring the world of companion BOTS, which he spoke about with fellow maker Alex Glow at the Hackaday Superconference in 2019. Today, we are speaking with Jayy about his work as a creative innovator, as well as the importance of accessibility and representation in the maker community. Jayy has been featured in Make Magazine and on Adam Savage's Tested, spoken at several hardware conferences including Hackaday's Superconference, and is a judge for the 2022 Hackaday Prize.We’re using this first month to introduce DesignLab’s Community. As a self-taught creative innovator, prolific maker, champion of Open Source technology, and an active member of the DesignLab community, Jayy is the perfect guest to kick off the podcast.If you like The BOM, don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and share the show wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow Supplyframe and hackaday on instagram, twitter, linkedin, and youtube, and DesignLab @supplyframedesignlab on instagram and twitter.The BOM is a Supplyframe podcast hosted by Majenta Strongheart, written, produced, and edited by Frank Driscoll and co-edited by Daniel Ferera. Executive producers are Ryan Tillotson and Tyler Nielsen. Theme music is by Ana Hogben, with show art by Thomas Schneider. Special thanks to Giovanni Salinas, Bruce Dominguez, Thomas Woodward, Jin Kumar, Jordon Clark, Matt Gunn, the entire Supplyframe Team, and you, our wonderful listener