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The Simputer project calls to memory what might be, arguably, the most groundbreaking hacker projects of all times. That is to say, the small computers conceptualised and cobbled together by the members of the Homebrew Computer Club in the 1970s (Levy, 1984). Back in 2004, however, such individual examples belonged to a cabinet of curiosities.
Definition. From the Wikipedia: "Biohacking is the practice of engaging biology with the hacker ethic. Biohacking encompasses a wide spectrum of practices and movements ranging from Grinders who design and install DIY body-enhancements such as magnetic implants to DIY biologists who conduct at-home gene sequencing.
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"Do-It-Yourself Biology... aims to move science into the hands of hobbyists. It is starting by holding sessions where amateurs extract DNA, and attempt genetic fingerprinting using common household items and the kitchen sink. "It shows you how much science can be about duct tape and having a few screws in the right place," Cowell said. "It shatters...
By Aurelie Ghalim, in her study, Fabbing Practices: " According to Eugene Thacker, biotech hobbyist projects employ a kind of “tactical media” that supports amateur practice and argues that “amateurism and hobbyism are important here because imply an interest in learning and interest in reappropriating, repurposing” . On the same line, Eric Kluiten...
Do-it-yourself biology: Challenges and Promises for an Open Science and Technology Movement. By Thomas Landrain, Remi Sussan et al.
The Homebrew Industrial Revolution is based on a series of research papers on industrial history I did for Center for a Stateless Society. In writing Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, I found myself most engaged in researching the material on micromanufacturing, household microenterprises, the alternative economy, and the ...
Open OEM - Project to build the first open source computer, Open Source Laptop. Pandora - a handheld game console designed to take advantage of existing open source software and to be a target for home-brew development. PC532 - a personal computer design based on the NS32532 microprocessor, released in 1990.
Description. "The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in ...
Central concept in the book on the Free Software Movement and the Hacker Ethic by Johan Soderbergh, entitled Hacking Capitalism Description Johan Soderbergh: "The notion of hackers becoming 'revolutionaries just for fun' would have appealed to the eighteenth ...
