Call for Action! Mobile Technologies for Activism
Christopher P. Csikszentmihályi, Nadav Aharony
Tue Jan 20 thru Fri Jan 23, 10am-06:00pm, E15-020
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Dec-2008
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Call for Action (CfA) is a 4 day intensive seminar on mobile phones and activism. How can mobile networked devices be used for social change, politics, and expression? Can phones help to organize people, gather information, and enable collective action to stop global warming? organize labor? end a war?
Each day we'll review existing tools for social change, cover techniques for mobile hacking, and piece together new experiments. International speakers ranging from community activists to UNICEF will discuss the problems with existing ICTs, and suggest parameters for new systems. We'll review protocols like VOIP, SMS, and Asterisk to look at how they may be reused or reconfigured.
Web: http://www.media.mit.edu/~csik/cfa
Contact: Csikszentmihályi, e15-020a, csik@media.mit.edu
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Drawdio - MacGuyver a Musical "Theremin"
Jay Silver, Josh Gordonson, Jean-Baptiste LABRUNE, Leah Buechley
Sat Jan 24, 02-05:00pm, e15-001
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Jan-2009
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Peruse Drawdio.com, soldering interest (but not experience)
Fee: 20.00 for the circuit parts
Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaroni, trees, grandpa, even the kitchen sink...
We will each solder a Drawdio circuit, or a mod. or hack of one. Please bring a soldering iron if you have one. Then we will improvise instruments and jam on them. Finally, we'll create documentation in the form of an instructable, a picture, or an audio sample.
YOU GET TO KEEP THE DRAWDIO CIRCUIT (that's why it costs $20 to participate, if you really can't pay for financial reasons but are serious about wanting to come write me an email sil@mit.edu). Other facilitators are Noah Vawter and Eric Rosenbaum
Web: http://drawdio.com
Contact: Jay Silver, e15-001 aka "the cube" at M.L., (617) 253-0330, sil@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Electronic Research Society
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Mobile Application Competition
Kwan Hong Lee, Dawei Shen, Andrew Lippman, Angel Irizarry
Wed-Fri, Jan 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28, 30, 10am-12:00pm, TBD
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 25-Dec-2008
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: 6.005, 6.170 preferred
We invite you to compete in mobile application competition to win iPhones, trips to Silicon Valley and Bank of America headquarter.
Description, class schedule and sign up link are at Course Description
Contact: Kwan Hong Lee, E15-495, (617) 909-2101, kool@mit.edu
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