Wednesday, September 29, 2010

News:Tech Know: Hacking the everyday

By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News
29 September 2010 Last updated at 08:22 GMT

Ellie Gibson meets hip-gyrating and chain-smoking robots when she visits technology artists.

In our regular series talking to makers and hackers, Tech Know takes time to get to know artists who hack everyday objects in their work.

When the history of maker culture is written, the Mutoid Waste Company (MWC) will have a volume all to itself.

Back in the 1980s, this group of artists toured the country and when they hit a town, found the scrapyard, built a huge sculpture from what they could salvage and then moved on.
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TECH KNOW: HACKING AT HOME

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It started many of its members on a lifetime of tinkering, hacking and making.
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