{"id":2476,"date":"2009-05-01T22:57:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T03:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2009-05-01T22:57:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T03:57:32","slug":"hacking-as-a-way-of-knowing-digital-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"Hacking as a Way of Knowing &#8211; Digital History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_2915.jpg' title='Photo'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_2915.jpg' alt='Photo' width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today was the first day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalhistory.wikispot.org\/Hacking_as_a_Way_of_Knowing\">Hacking as a Way of Knowing<\/a> e-waste fabrication workshop. Above you can see the text from a fax thermal printer roll projected onto a wall. (At least I think that&#8217;s what it is.) Below is an Arduino connected to a a speaker. St\u00c3\u00a9fan has working on taking a RSS feed and triggering events so we can connect stuff to it to create cool stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_2918.jpg' title='Photo of Arduino'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img_2918.jpg' alt='Photo of Arduino'  width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We got talking about why fabrication is taking off. Turkel has his lab. Matt Ratto at the Univerity of Toronto has a lab (with a great name &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/criticalmaking.com\">CriticalMaking.com<\/a>. Some of the reasons are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a growing amount of electronic waste visible and available to be repurposed (and reminding us of how much we waste.)<\/li>\n<li>As manufacturing moves out of North America we respond by exploring micro and personal manufacturing through fabrication. It is possible that this is the future of manufacturing here.<\/li>\n<li>As manufacturing becomes so complex that we can&#8217;t imagine how everyday things are made, fabrication gives us a way of thinking about the making of what&#8217;s around us. It allows us to reappropriate the everyday.<\/li>\n<li>The costs of fabrication (tools and materials) have dropped to the point where it is a viable hobby. What will fabrication look like when it is not longer only for those with skills?<\/li>\n<li>We have what I call an &#8220;Ikea&#8221; effect where the labour and costs for certain items is shifting. Ikea moved part of assembly (the end assembly that takes relatively little skill) to the buyer by creating smarter hardware. They shifted engineering smarts to joining technology that could be used by anyone. Fabrication benefits from a shift in smarts so that assembly can doable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the first day of the Hacking as a Way of Knowing e-waste fabrication workshop. Above you can see the text from a fax thermal printer roll projected onto a wall. (At least I think that&#8217;s what it is.) Below is an Arduino connected to a a speaker. St\u00c3\u00a9fan has working on taking a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hacking as a Way of Knowing &#8211; Digital History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playful-or-cool","category-streaming-media","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}