Could Hardware Hacking Save Us? (Alexandra Dechamps-Sonsino)

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Could hardware hacking save us? Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, CEO of Tinker.it! Ignite North UK, January 22nd 2009 Friday, 13 February 2009

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Could hardware hacking save us?Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, CEO of Tinker.it!

Ignite North UK, January 22nd 2009

Friday, 13 February 2009

Save us from what?Credit crunchDespairBoredomNot knowing how to make things with our handsNot knowing how things are madeProblem solving in the new centuryKnowledge barriersDependency on big institutionsBut how?

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Reduce things to their simplest expression

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Reduce the false sense complexity

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Thinking by making

Papercamp 09Paper-based making session

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Create a community

Open Frameworks workshopFebruary 2008

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Reuse the known to discover the unknown

BFI Toy hacking demoGrannies on wheels hacked

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Learn a new language

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Use the tools you know

John NusseyOyster card snowflake generator

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Enjoy making something yourself

Omer KilicFounder of Tinkering Society

in Canterbury

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Tracking yourself

Tom Coates & Matt JonesPersonal Informatics

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Doing your bit

Nick O’LearyMonitoring the energy usein your home using MQTT

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Because the internet is getting physical

Camille MoussetteBBC weather hack

with Ethernet Arduino

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Because the screen isn’t everything

Rob DavisArduino-powered fencing box

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Because objects are talking to us

Internet of thingsNabaztag

Mir:roriPod + Nike

Tracking pigeonsCurrent cost meter

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It’s about going beyond the breadboard

Alex BakerPrototyping box

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Because people want to make products

Floor it!Shawn Bonkowski &

Mike Albers

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Because it’s about new skills

PCB designPonoko

Small productions Micro markets

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“Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor”

January 20th 2009.

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Matt Biddulphhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3216759774/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3210084519/

Nicolas Novahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/nnova/3064536640/

Thanks!

[email protected]

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