The making of HDMIPi
You may never have heard of David Mellor or his company Cyntech [1]; yet, Mellor has been at the forefront of Raspberry Pi hacking and making since the credit card-sized computer first came into mainstream consciousness. He has also had a hand in some of the biggest success stories of the cottage industry that's sprung up around it.
"I've been working within manufacturing, electronics, and distribution for 20 plus years. I headed up Elma Electronics in the UK and we got the company up to a value of around UK£ 3.5 million. I moved to America to run their facilities there for a while," explained Mellor.
When Mellor returned from the United States, he was a bit shocked at the distribution market in the United Kingdom and thought there might be an opportunity to build a company there. He called it Cyntech. Mellor said, "We started off with very little money and managed to get some franchised distribution."
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