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Repurpose: Hardware Hackers

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A documentary film by Jack Oatmon ( http://twitter.com/jackoatmon ).
A look into the hardware hacking community in Montreal, including the Foulab collective. Why are more and more hobbyists experimenting with hacks and circuit bends? What relationship does this imply about consumer society and technological advancement? Is this a real-world analog of ‘user generated content’?
Check out the lab: http://foulab.org/
Check out more music by XC3N: http://www.last.fm/music/XC3N

New York City Hackers

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This documentary looks at the “2600″ community in New York City of today, its meetings and conferences, political annotations, and historically explores the roots of the definition ‘hacking’ amongst the model train enthusiasts at MIT…” Featuring: Kevin Mitnick, Eugene E.Kashpureff, and “Off the Hook” radio host Emmanuel Goldstein

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