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 crunch
Despair
Boredom
Not knowing how to make things
with our hands
Not knowing how things are made
Problem solving in the new century
Knowledge barriers
Dependency on big institutions
But how?
Friday, 13 February 2009

Reduce things to their simplest
expression
Friday, 13 February 2009

Reduce the false sense complexity
Friday, 13 February 2009

Papercamp 09
Paper-based making session
Thinking by making
Friday, 13 February 2009

Open Frameworks workshop
February 2008
Create a community
Friday, 13 February 2009

BFI Toy hacking demo
Grannies on wheels hacked
Reuse the known to discover the
unknown
Friday, 13 February 2009

Learn a new language
Friday, 13 February 2009

John Nussey
Oyster card snowflake generator
Use the tools you know
Friday, 13 February 2009

Omer Kilic
Founder of Tinkering Society
in Canterbury
Enjoy making something yourself
Friday, 13 February 2009

Tom Coates & Matt Jones
Personal Informatics
Tracking yourself
Friday, 13 February 2009

Nick O’Leary
Monitoring the energy use
in your home using MQTT
Doing your bit
Friday, 13 February 2009

Camille Moussette
BBC weather hack
with Ethernet Arduino
Because the internet is getting physical
Friday, 13 February 2009

Rob Davis
Arduino-powered fencing box
Because the screen isn’t everything
Friday, 13 February 2009

Internet of things
Nabaztag
Mir:ror
iPod + Nike
Tracking pigeons
Current cost meter
Because objects are talking to us
Friday, 13 February 2009

Alex Baker
Prototyping box
It’s about going beyond the breadboard
Friday, 13 February 2009

Floor it!
Shawn Bonkowski &
Mike Albers
Because people want to make products
Friday, 13 February 2009

PCB design
Ponoko
Small productions
Micro markets
Because it’s about new skills
Friday, 13 February 2009

“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.
Friday, 13 February 2009

Thanks!
Matt Biddulph
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3216759774/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3210084519/
Nicolas Nova
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nnova/3064536640/
alex@tinker.it
Friday, 13 February 2009