The future of gadgets isn’t necessarily the homogeneous iPhone. With open source hardware and personal manufacturing, we can all have custom gadgets someday. Mark Argo talks about what we can learn from history as we try to make a DIY future

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…ist eine gute Band, passt aber auch zum letzten Wochenende: Am Samstag fand im EnKa in Berlin ein Workshop der Chiptune Marching Band statt

Jo Kazuhiro and Jamie Allen vom Culture Lab Newcastle machten in vier Stunden 14 Leute in drei Schritten zu Mitgliedern der Chiptune Marching Band:

1. Bausatz nach Anleitung zusammenstecken
   (Foto von chiptunemarchingband.com)

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“institut for the future” (iftf.org) hat eine Karte zum Thema “future of making” gemacht.

Future of making map (PDF)

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tolles Objekt von Schulze & Webb:

Olinda is a prototype DAB radio that shares listening with friends, is customisable with modular hardware, and aims to provoke discussion on the future and design of radios for the home.
Olinda is by BBC Audio & Music, with Schulze & Webb.

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Jessica Banks & Ayah Bdeir (Little Bits) @ mind08 / The Design and the Elastic Mind Symposium

(video@seedmagazine)

???

this is a trust based thing. (…) No patents, you have to let go with the ego you have to share don´t waste your time and your money looking at the patents
and trying to defend them, move on, have another idea tomorrow, don´t be afraid.

(ca. minute 10)