6: Could hardware hacking save us? (Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino)
1. Could hardware hacking save us?
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, CEO of Tinker.it!
Ignite North UK, January 22nd 2009
Friday, 13 February 2009
2. 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?
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3. Reduce things to their simplest
expression
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9. John Nussey
Oyster card snowflake generator
Use the tools you know
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10. Omer Kilic
Founder of Tinkering Society
in Canterbury
Enjoy making something yourself
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11. Tom Coates & Matt Jones
Personal Informatics
Tracking yourself
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12. Nick O’Leary
Monitoring the energy use
in your home using MQTT
Doing your bit
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13. Camille Moussette
BBC weather hack
with Ethernet Arduino
Because the internet is getting physical
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14. Rob Davis
Arduino-powered fencing box
Because the screen isn’t everything
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15. Internet of things
Nabaztag
Mir:ror
iPod + Nike
Tracking pigeons
Current cost meter
Because objects are talking to us
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16. Alex Baker
Prototyping box
It’s about going beyond the breadboard
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17. Floor it!
Shawn Bonkowski &
Mike Albers
Because people want to make products
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18. PCB design
Ponoko
Small productions
Micro markets
Because it’s about new skills
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19. “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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20. 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
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