The DIY Gamer Kit allows users to build their own handheld gaming console and either code their own game or download games from an online library. Technology Will Save Us produces several DIY kits focused on topics such as music, play, gardening, and cycling, inserting skills like coding and soldering into enjoyable daily activities. These objects reflect the deep and central role technology and interface design now play in our everyday lives, and the new importance of “maker culture”—technology-oriented, often grassroots, craft initiatives—in the design landscape.

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This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good, February 14, 2015–January 31, 2016.

Medium Circuit board, electronic components, LED screen, open-source software library
Dimensions assembled kit: 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 x 2 1/4" (11.4 x 7 x 5.7 cm) box: 5 7/8 x 8 x 2 1/4" (14.9 x 20.3 x 5.7 cm)
Credit Gift of the designers
Object number 770.2014.1-2
Department Architecture & Design

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Coding/programming

Coding is the method by which computer programmers, or coders, transmit instructions to computers. Coding transforms human language into the binary language of computers (in which there are only two possible states, off and on, commonly symbolized by 0 and 1).

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