Citizen_Engineer
“In the 21st century we should all know how to code” a young artist in Singapore
Next to media literacy, the web 2.0 generation and social network – shouldn’t we bring into the picture social hardware ? My thoughts after watching this video are: “in the 21st century, shouldn’t we all become engineers?
Hackermedia – learning how to run in the 21 century
Citizen Engineer is an online video series about open source hardware, electronics, art and hacking by Limor (Ladyada) Fried of Adafruit Industries & Phillip (pt) Torrone of MAKE magazine.
Phones: SIM card & payphone hackingLearn how a SIM card works (the small card inside GSM cell phones) make a SIM card reader, view deleted messages, phone book entries and clone/crack a SIM card. Modify a “retired” payphone so it can be used as a home telephone and for VoIP (Skype). Then learn how to modify the hacked payphone so it accepts quarters – and lastly, use a Redbox to make “free phone” calls from the modified coin-accepting payphone.
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on March 17, 2009 on 5:46 pm
The term Social Hardware is not new to me, and it is quite visible on the web, via Google, but my attempt to put up a Social Hardware page on the Wikipedia is likely to fail because they consider it a neologism. It would help if someone could either provide references or argure for it on the Wikipedia talk page.
Please help!
dpw