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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21

by Mark Frauenfelder
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
7h 54m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21

MAKE FREE

BY CORY DOCTOROW

Who You Calling Unoriginal?

I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but holy awesome, there is a lot of stuff lying around. If you want some high-density memory, you can just go get it off the shelf — no need to shut yourself up in the basement for a year winding cores.

Componentized pieces like Arduino boards are likewise wonderfully convenient, getting a lot of the finicky stuff out of the way so that you can focus on creating. We’ve got highly polished text editors, web servers, operating systems; whole libraries of preconfigured virtual machines; mountains of cheap electronic toys to raid for parts.

The proliferation of stuff isn’t without its problems (there’s a patch of plastic garbage bigger than Texas floating in ...

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