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Frankenstein's Toolkit: Prototyping Electronics Using Consumer Products

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Ilan Mandel, Wendy Ju

Human-Computer Interaction · Submitted 23 Mar 2023

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The authors' main claim In our practice as educators, researchers and designers we have found that centering reverse engineering and reuse has pedagogical, environmental, and economic benefits.

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CitationIlan Mandel, Wendy Ju. "Frankenstein's Toolkit: Prototyping Electronics Using Consumer Products." arXiv:2303.13618 (2023). https://pith.science/paper/EKNJT37T
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In our practice as educators, researchers and designers we have found that centering reverse engineering and reuse has pedagogical, environmental, and economic benefits. Design decisions in the development of new hardware tool-kits should consider how we can use e-waste at hand as integral components of electronics prototyping. Dissection, extraction and modification can give insights into how things are made at scale. Simultaneously, it can enable prototypes that have greater fidelity or functionality than would otherwise be cost-effective to produce.

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s0 In our practice as educators, researchers and designers we have found that centering reverse engineering and reuse has pedagogical, environmental, and economic benefits. background 0.39 0.89 0.45 asserted 1.00
s1 Design decisions in the development of new hardware tool-kits should consider how we can use e-waste at hand as integral components of electronics prototyping. future work 0.57 0.13 0.43 hedged possibility 0.65
s2 Dissection, extraction and modification can give insights into how things are made at scale. interpretation 0.50 0.30 0.09 hedged possibility 0.89
s3 Simultaneously, it can enable prototypes that have greater fidelity or functionality than would otherwise be cost-effective to produce. interpretation 0.63 0.40 0.16 hedged possibility 0.87

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In our practice as educators, researchers and designers we have found that centering reverse engineering and reuse has pedagogical, environmental, and economic benefits. Design decisions in the development of new hardware tool-kits should consider how we can use e-waste at hand as integral components of electronics prototyping. Dissection, extraction and modification can give insights into how things are made at scale. Simultaneously, it can enable prototypes that have greater fidelity or functionality than would otherwise be cost-effective to produce.

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