[pchelpers] Article:Team debuts electronic-hacking how-to videos at HOPE conference

July 18, 2008 10:28 AM PDT
Posted by Elinor Mills


NEW YORK--Want to know how to build your own cell phone charger? How
about putting an old-fashioned pay phone in your home to make voice over
Internet calls?

A team of do-it-yourself technology gurus are creating a video series
that will show you how to hack everyday gadgets to get more--and
novel--uses out of them.

Limor Fried, who owns the Adafruit Industries electronics building
business, and Phillip Torrone, senior editor at Make Magazine, are
calling their series "Citizen Engineer." They debuted it at the Last
HOPE conference here on Friday.

More here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-9994305-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1009_3-0-20
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