This Guys Raspberry Pi Laptop Is Goals Via Cyberpunk

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MNT Reform DIY Laptop

Modern laptops have secret schematics, glued-in batteries, and mystery components all over. But Reform is the opposite – it invites both curious makers and privacy aware users to take a look under the hood, customize the documented electronics, and 3D-print their own parts.

A free and open source modular laptop that respects your rights

Customize and repair it yourself with 3D printed and standard parts

Reclaim your privacy and security: No microphone, camera or management engine

Interchangeable and customizable motherboard, slim mechanical keyboard and trackball, each with open firmware

We are currently finishing the limited beta shipment of Reforms to collect feedback from early adopters that will feed into the final design for the campaign model.

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Wearable Raspberry Pi by Jason Benson on flickr, who is clearly living in 3018

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Adafruit / Beagle Bone Black / Proto Plate / 2013

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Decentralized Manufacturing: The New Frontier

I've already discussed the importance of forming networks of resilience against corporate encroachment in local communities before. One of those networks consists of manufacturing, specifically decentralized manufacturing. One hallmark of this venture will be 3D printing.

Given how corporations weaponize convenience to extract everything from communities (the Walmart effect), communities must be able to provide for themselves. Obviously, learning a trade and teaching it to your kids is half the battle. The other half will inevitably come down to adopting new technology (such as 3D printing) without subjecting yourself to the tech companies that will attempt to control this. 3D printing has the capability to cover building parts for everything from construction, to automotive, to even pharmaceutical products, and most controversially, guns.

That said, this has to happen in an open source environment. Playing into the IP law game will simply result in your ideas getting acquired by a corp and sued into bankruptcy. You're not gonna beat these guys at your own game, and IP laws are flagrantly anti-free market anyway (a topic I won't get into here.) If you want to protect your liberties, you're going to have to learn when to band together against bigger threats.

Here's some resources to get started: 

What is 3D printing?

Free download able 3D printing files

Best affordable open source 3D printers

Have at it folks.

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MIT’s Slick New UI Lets Your Phone and Desktop Screens Behave as One

By Liz Stinson at Wired. You can read the full article here.

For all the ways the influx of new devices has streamlined our harried lives, it’s produced a parallel problem: the fracturing of our digital ones. What happens on your phone or tablet or computer are siloed experiences that rarely overlap in any meaningful or helpful way. But just think, what if your devices could interact with each other so seamlessly that one screen essentially becomes the other?

This scenario is inching closer to reality with THAW, the newest project out of MIT’s Media Lab. THAW is a program that allows your smartphone and desktop computer to interact with each other so fluidly it’s as though they share the same silicon brain. In the video you watch as files are dragged from a desktop computer and dumped onto an iPhone. In another scene you see a Mario-like video game being played on the desktop only to transfer to the iPhone without skipping a beat. It’s totally trippy, and a little bit surprising. Which is weird because interaction like this is about as intuitive as it comes.

This is really, really cool. If you don’t read the short article, at least check out the video.