Sun, 23 Jul 2006
Citizen Engineer - Consumer Electronics Hacking and Open Source Hardware
Lady Ada is a fellow at
Eyebeam.
Phillip Torrone is the editor of
Make
magazine. They both find, make and document hacking consumer electronics
devices. Phillip began the session with some covers from popular mechanics
magazine in the 1950s. One featured a drawing was a family test flying ther new
personal helicopter they built themself! And to make it even more ridiculous it
was being towed by a car! His point was this is the kind of idealism of
construction, progress and mechanical tinkering was commonplace in the post war
era. Then something happened and all Americans forgot that they could make
their own grown up toys.
That's all changing now with the convergence of software and hardware on digital
consumer devices. The session was mostly a gallery of cool stuff people have
made on the web and some of the legal and political issues surrounding
intellectual property of inventions.
Here's the link list
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