Arduino microcontrollers and the queen's hamlet: Utilitarian and hedonized DIY practices in contemporary electronic culture

Integration Through Computation - Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 44-47

  Hertz, Garnet ^a  

^a Concept Lab ^*  (United States)

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1. See http://conceptlab.com/roachbot/ for information about Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot project and http://conceptlab.com/outrun/ for details on OutRun, the arcade game concept car.
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3. For a compilation of traditional homesteader skills, see Back To Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Our Traditional Skills (The Reader's Digest Association, 1981).
4. Rachel Maines, Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).
5. For information on the Queen's Hamlet, see the official website at http://en.chateauversailles.fr/ discover-the-estate/le-domaine-de-marie- antoinette/the-queen-hamlet/the-queens-hamlet.
6. For more information on the Arduino, see http://www.arduino.cc/
7. Similar platforms to the Arduino include high level devices like the NiQ EZ/IO, Beehive ADB I/O, Infusion Systems's I-Cubed or low-level microcontrollers like the Microchip PIC, Atmel, or AVR chips.
8. For information on the Homebrew Computer Club, an early Silicon Valley computing DIY group that is credited with sparking the personal computer revolution, see John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Penguin, 2005).
9. See Andrew Lewis's Vintage VoIP article in Make Volume 25 (O'Reilly Media, 2011) for a description of how to convert a classic 1930s retro telephone into a Skype phone.
10. Make: Technology on Your Time (O'Reilly Media, since 2005).
11. For example, see Popular Mechanics, "Make it Yourself: 900 Things to Make and Do" (Popular Mechanics, 1927).
12. Mark Frauenfelder, "Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World" (Portfolio, 2010).
13. Punctualization refers to a concept in Actor-Network Theory to describe when components are brought together into a single complex system that can be used as a single object. For more information, see Bruno Latour, Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, Harvard University Press, 1999.
14. Matt Ratto, "Critical Making: Conceptual and Material Studies in Technology and Social Life," The Information Society, 27, no. 4 (2011): 252-260.